Picomatch’s ReDoS flaw is a reminder that small parsing bugs can become big availability problems
A new CVE-2026-33671 advisory is drawing attention to a familiar but still dangerous class of bug: regular expression denial of service, or ReDoS, in the JavaScript glob matcher Picomatch. The issue...
The semver package—ubiquitous in the npm ecosystem—contained a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw that lets attackers hang or crash Node.js processes when untrusted input is parsed as a version range, and the vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-25883 with fixes released in semver...
GJSON versions before 1.9.3 contain a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw — tracked as CVE-2021-42836 — that can be triggered by crafted JSON paths or queries and allow an attacker to drive CPU consumption to the point of service disruption.
Background / Overview
GJSON is a widely...