VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2026-4926

The generated regex grows exponentially with the number of groups, causing denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.79%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.79%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Impact: A bad regular expression is generated any time you have multiple sequential optional groups (curly brace syntax), such as `{a}{b}{c}:z`. The generated regex grows exponentially with the number of groups, causing denial of service. Patches: Fixed in version 8.4.0. Workarounds: Limit the number of sequential optional groups in route patterns. Avoid passing user-controlled input as route patterns.

CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.79% probability · 54th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-1333
Affected: pillarjs/path-to-regexp
Source: ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.