CVE-2026-70656 (GCVE-0-2026-70656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-21 17:59
Modified
2026-08-21 18:07
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. From 3.5.1 until 3.9.2, an authenticated admin or superadmin can set matchMethod to regex and place a malicious expression in the expectedValue field for advanced HTTP monitor matching. server/src/api/validation/monitorValidation.ts accepts the expression, and server/src/service/network/AdvancedMatcher.ts synchronously evaluates it against an attacker-controlled HTTP response body on the Node.js main event loop without a timeout or worker isolation, allowing catastrophic backtracking to freeze API endpoints, monitor checks, and WebSocket connections for all users. This issue is fixed in version 3.9.2.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bluewave-labs | Checkmate |
Version: >= 3.5.1, < 3.9.2 |
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