CVE-2026-103043
HIGHCVSS 7.5Description
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.
Timeline
Published:September 29th, 2026 11:17 PM
Last modified:October 20th, 2026 2:17 AM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 7.5 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://gist.github.com/R3tro16/92948206e9893a3739b91746439384ab
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js/blob/f3ae9850baa344f27b46bb149e9b891831d273b1/src/index.ts#L109
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/anchorme
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anchorme-through-3.0.8-regular-expression-denial-of-service
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute