CVE-2026-9496
Pacote Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability
Description
Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 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.
INFO
Published Date :
May 26, 2026, 5 a.m.
Last Modified :
May 26, 2026, 5 a.m.
Remotely Exploit :
No
Source :
snyk
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2026-9496
vulnerability.
Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the
products
that
are
affected, the information is not represented in the table below.
No affected product recoded yet
Solution
- Update the pacote package to a secure version.
- Apply vendor-supplied patches when available.
- Monitor package dependencies for updates.
We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).
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