🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-9496

HIGH 7.5
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.3%
EPSS Percentile
27th

Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 and before 21.5.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted spec.rawSpec value that triggers the function’s regex replacement and string-manipulation logic, causing excessive CPU consumption and potentially stalling or crashing the process.

CWE CWE-1333
Vendor n/a
Product pacote
Published May 26, 2026
Last Updated Jul 7, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

n/a / pacote
11.2.7 < 21.5.1
n/a / org.webjars.npm:pacote
11.2.7 < *

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
security.snyk.io: https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PACOTE-8225084 security.snyk.io: https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-16874025 github.com: https://github.com/npm/pacote/blob/9d7459440826ab4cf962ef98d8f3fd0c4d464b5c/lib/util/add-git-sha.js%23L2C1-L13C2 github.com: https://github.com/npm/pacote/commit/ce804fb1647fe1699b2f87efd01ea9f4efed8508

Credits

Rongchen Li