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CVE-2026-26996 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability in minimatch, a JavaScript glob-matching library that converts glob expressions into regular expressions. Affected versions include 10.2.0 and earlier. The flaw occurs when a glob pattern contains many consecutive '' wildcards followed by a literal character that does not appear in the candidate string. In vulnerable versions, each '' is compiled into a separate regex fragment equivalent to a non-greedy path-segment wildcard, producing a regular expression structure that can trigger catastrophic backtracking in the V8 regex engine when the overall match fails. The resulting worst-case time complexity is exponential, reported as O(4^N) with respect to the number of consecutive wildcard characters. As a result, a single crafted pattern can cause a minimatch() call to consume excessive CPU time or hang for an extended period.
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A Minimatch denial of service vulnerability via specially crafted glob patterns.
A denial of service vulnerability in minimatch triggered by specially crafted glob patterns.
A vulnerability in HPE Unified OSS Console Assurance Monitoring (UOCAM) / HPE Unified OSS Console Core (UOC), addressed by HPE, with potential denial-of-service impact.
A denial-of-service vulnerability in minimatch triggered by specially crafted glob patterns.
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