CERT Polska disclosed CVE-2026-16270, a denial-of-service vulnerability in Open Mercato caused by inefficient regular expression complexity (CWE-1333). The flaw affects all versions before 0.6.4 and allows a privileged user to add an unsafe regular expression rule to a field, which can then consume excessive resources and disrupt service availability.
The issue was reported responsibly by Pawel Scibiorski and coordinated through CERT Polska. Open Mercato addressed the vulnerability in version 0.6.4, making the update the primary remediation for organizations running affected deployments.

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The vulnerability was fixed in Open Mercato version 0.6.4 after coordinated disclosure. The flaw allowed a privileged user to introduce an unsafe regex rule into a field, leading to denial of service.
CERT Polska disclosed CVE-2026-16270, a denial-of-service vulnerability in Open Mercato caused by inefficient regular expression complexity. The issue affects all versions before 0.6.4 and was reported responsibly by Pawel Scibiorski.
MITRE published CWE-1333, documenting the weakness category 'Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity' that underlies regex-based denial-of-service issues.
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