CVE-2026-9496 (GCVE-0-2026-9496)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-26 05:00 – Updated: 2026-06-27 15:25
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a pacote Affected: 11.2.7 , < 21.5.1 (semver)
    n/a org.webjars.npm:pacote Affected: 11.2.7 , < * (semver)
Credits
Rongchen Li
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