CVE-2026-68499 (GCVE-0-2026-68499)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-30 20:07
Modified
2026-07-31 19:19
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CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google's RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2's String.prototype.match implementation with a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string fails to advance its native matching cursor in lib/match.cc, causing an infinite loop and unbounded native memory growth that blocks the event loop and can exhaust host memory. This issue is fixed in 1.25.2.
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