Picomatch through 4.0.7 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to block the event loop by supplying single-branch repeated extglob patterns. Attackers can provide globs like +(*) or +(*a), which analyzeRepeatedExtglob in lib/parse.js skips, causing exponential backtracking against short crafted strings and denying service to Node.js applications.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 16:40
- StatusReceived → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:13
- First seenCVSS 8.7NVD modified 2026-10-19 17:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.