pacote is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function
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.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-9496US | — | — | ||
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 sup… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/npm/pacotePACKAGE
- https://github.com/npm/pacote/blob/9d7459440826ab4cf962ef98d8f3fd0c4d464b5c/lib/util/add-git-sha.js%23L2C1-L13C2WEB
- https://github.com/npm/pacote/commit/627a7dc1a214d857472a13b48e42559c75288c9eWEB
- https://github.com/npm/pacote/commit/ce804fb1647fe1699b2f87efd01ea9f4efed8508WEB
- https://github.com/npm/pacote/releases/tag/v21.5.1WEB
- https://github.com/npm/pacote/releases/tag/v22.0.0WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9496ADVISORY
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-16874025WEB
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