CVE-2026-9496:
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.
CVE-2026-9496:
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.
vcswatch reports that
this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version
11.19.0-1, distribution
unstable) and new commits
in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make
an upload.
https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/js-team%2Fnpm API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.
1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:
CVE-2026-9496:
(needs triaging)
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.
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