Description
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.
Published: 2026-09-29
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title anchorme through 3.0.8 Regular Expression Denial of Service
First Time appeared Anchorme Project
Anchorme Project anchorme
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:anchorme_project:anchorme:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Anchorme Project
Anchorme Project anchorme
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Anchorme Project Anchorme
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-30T19:15:10.494Z

Reserved: 2026-09-29T22:17:06.983Z

Link: CVE-2026-103043

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-29T23:17:22.023

Modified: 2026-09-30T17:32:07.107

Link: CVE-2026-103043

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-30T11:00:17Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-1333

    Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity