Fiche vulnérabilité
CVE-2026-26996 : faille élevée minimatch project minimatch (CVSS 7.5)
Description
minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Versions 10.2.0 and below are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when a glob pattern contains many consecutive * wildcards followed by a literal character that doesn't appear in the test string. Each * compiles to a separate [^/]*? regex group, and when the match fails, V8's regex engine backtracks exponentially across all possible splits. The time complexity is O(4^N) where N is the number of * characters. With N=15, a single minimatch() call takes ~2 seconds. With N=34, it hangs effectively forever. Any application that passes user-controlled strings to minimatch() as the pattern argument is vulnerable to DoS. This issue has been fixed in version 10.2.1.
En bref
- Sévérité
- Élevée (CVSS 7.5)
- Vecteur CVSS
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Exploitation active
- Non signalée par la CISA
- Publication
- 20 févr. 2026
- Dernière mise à jour
- 17 juin 2026
Produits concernés
- minimatch project minimatch