CVE-2026-9496

HIGH

Pacote - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 and before 21.5.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted spec.rawSpec value that triggers the function’s regex replacement and string-manipulation logic, causing excessive CPU consumption and potentially stalling or crashing the process.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0035
EPSS Percentile 27.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333 CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
None/org.webjars.npm:pacote 11.2.7
None/pacote 11.2.7
None/pacote 11.2.7 - 21.5.1
Published May 26, 2026
Tracked Since May 26, 2026