Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting node-red package, versions <5.0.9-r1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-NODERED-21692514
  • published24 Oct 2026
  • disclosed18 Oct 2026

Introduced: 18 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-111997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard node-red to version 5.0.9-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-red package and not the node-red package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6 constructor.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1