UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118764

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118764

    Published: 29 Oct 2026Last Modified: 5 Nov 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2026-118764

    Summary:

    Details: minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Starting in 7.0.0 and prior to 11.0.1, src/index.ts implements firstPhasePreProcess() so that, at optimizationLevel 2 or higher, it repeatedly expands attacker-controlled **/.. pattern segments inside a fixpoint loop, allowing generated globParts entries to be processed and expanded again. secondPhasePreProcess() then compares the expanded entries pairwise, so a short malicious glob can cause excessive CPU and memory consumption during pattern compilation. This issue is fixed in version 11.0.1.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-118764, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118764, https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/77a0f5c4b80bdc641c3c930a1d9edf5ad2db57f8, https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/releases/tag/v11.0.1, https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/security/advisories/GHSA-g3hv-75wg-m249

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-minimatch

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-minimatch?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.2.11-1
    0.2.12-1
    0.2.12-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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