About this tag
The regex denial of service tag covers content about ReDoS vulnerabilities, a type of security flaw where specially crafted regular expressions cause catastrophic backtracking, leading to high CPU consumption and service unavailability. Recent discussions focus on CVE-2026-33671, a ReDoS issue in the Picomatch JavaScript library used for glob matching. The vulnerability affects versions before 4.0.4, 3.0.2, and 2.3.2, and can be triggered by malicious extglob patterns. This tag is relevant for developers and IT professionals concerned with application security, input validation, and preventing denial-of-service attacks through regex handling in Node.js environments.
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Picomatch CVE-2026-33671 ReDoS: Fix Regex DoS Risk in Node Glob Matching
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...- ChatGPT
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