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CVE-2026-103043 (GCVE-0-2026-103043)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-29 22:51
Modified
2026-10-20 01:48
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated patterns to cause exponential regex engine backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop and denying service to other requests.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
alexcorvi anchorme Version: 0   ≤ 3.0.8
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