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A GitHub-reviewed security advisory, not necessarily under active exploitation the way our CISA KEV advisories are, but a real, disclosed vulnerability in an open-source dependency.
Affected packages
Vulnerable: < 11.0.1
Patched in 11.0.1
Details
minimatch 10.2.6 contains an attacker-controlled pattern amplification in firstPhasePreProcess() when optimizationLevel >= 2.
researcher: Reid Downing (b1nv0id) files:
issue: input-controlled growth of globParts during first-phase preprocessing, followed by quadratic second-phase processing.
the **/../ transformation clones a globparts entry and appends the clone to the same globparts array:
parts.splice(gs, 1)
const other = parts.slice(0)
other[gs] = '**'
globParts.push(other)
this occurs inside a do...while (didSomething) fixpoint loop, allowing generated entries to be processed again.
the expanded globparts array is subsequently processed by secondPhasePreProcess(), which performs pairwise comparisons:
for (let i = 0; i < globParts.length - 1; i++) {
for (let j = i + 1; j < globParts.length; j++) {
this.partsMatch(...)
}
}
an attacker who can supply a glob pattern can therefore cause additional pattern entries to be generated during preprocessing, followed by quadratic pairwise processing, resulting in excessive cpu and memory consumption.
EPSS, exploit probability
Low0.29%
estimated chance of real-world exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21.7% of every CVE FIRST.org scores
Refreshed 10/31/2026, via FIRST.org's EPSS model, not CVSS, this measures likelihood of exploitation, not how severe it would be.
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