minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Versions 10.2.0 and below are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when a glob pattern contains many consecutive * wildcards followed by a literal character that doesn't appear in the test string. Each * compiles to a separate [^/]*? regex group, and when the match fails, V8's regex engine backtracks exponentially across all possible splits. The time complexity is O(4^N) where N is the number of * characters. With N=15, a single minimatch() call takes ~2 seconds. With N=34, it hangs effectively forever. Any application that passes user-controlled strings to minimatch() as the pattern argument is vulnerable to DoS. This issue has been fixed in version 10.2.1.
CVE-2026-26996
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
Also known asEUVD-2026-8032 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 49EG Risk 49/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.6% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.6%
- EPSS %ILE
- 47th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
February 20, 2026
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 2, 2026ReDoS via repeated wildcards with non-matching literal in pattern · Advisory · isaacs/minimatch · GitHub
https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/security/advisories/GHSA-3ppc-4f35-3m26commit 2e111f3a79ab (isaacs/minimatch)
Fix landed in isaacs/minimatch commit 2e111f3a79ab — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/2e111f3a79abc00fa73110195de2c0f2351904f5Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-26996(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:86618Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: New container image: rhceph-9.2
- RHSA-2026:83622Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.17.28 security, enhancement & bug fix update
- RHSA-2026:83619Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.16.36 security, enhancement & bug fix update
- RHSA-2026:77316Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.100 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:77321Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.72 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:65126Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.25.11 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2026:56912Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.68 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:56789Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.72 bug fix and security update
- +12 more
Patch Availability(30)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-minimatch | 3.0.4+~3.0.3-1 ... 9.0.7-1 (17 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-minimatch | 5.1.1+~5.1.2-1 ... 9.0.7-2 (9 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-minimatch | 9.0.3-6, 9.0.7-1, 9.0.7-2 |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-minimatch | 9.0.3-6 |
| — |
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| minimatch | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(11)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2026:10184MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:10184 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:13508MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:13508 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:18054MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:18054 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:18059MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:18059 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21703MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:21703 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21709MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:21709 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21772MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:21772 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:4942MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:4942 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:5168MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:5168 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:5665MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:5665 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:6192MODERATE2026-02-20
RHSA-2026:6192 — Moderate
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 97 of 113 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 16 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-25 14:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 01:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 01:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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- 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-18 03:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
- 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
- 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
- 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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- 2026-10-12 16:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 20:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:13 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 14:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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- 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
- 2026-10-09 06:58 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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- 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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- 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
- 2026-09-19 13:33 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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- 2026-09-01 04:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
- 2026-08-31 17:34 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
- 2026-08-14 21:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-14 09:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 09:30 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
- 2026-08-13 01:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 01:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-08-12 01:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-08-11 07:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
- 2026-08-10 09:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-09 20:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 20:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-08-09 09:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
- 2026-08-08 08:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-07 21:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 21:20 UTCVendor advisory
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