CVE-2026-103043
anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6…
- Risk score
- 58/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.5%
- Published
- 29 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 denyin…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://gist.github.com/R3tro16/92948206e9893a3739b91746439384ab
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js/blob/f3ae9850baa344f27b46bb149e9b891831d273b1/src/index.ts#L109
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/anchorme
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anchorme-through-3.0.8-regular-expression-denial-of-service
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
Original 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.
Last activity 29 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.