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CVE-2026-9496

pacote

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.

CVSS 7.5EPSS 0.346%Risk 0.77
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Published
2026-05-26 07:16:19
Affected versions
>= 11.2.7
Type
Package
Last modified
2026-07-23 11:10:00
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H