Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting vitess-22 package, versions <22.0.4-r4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-VITESS22-15452310
  • published11 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Feb 2026

Introduced: 26 Feb 2026

NewCVE-2026-27904  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard vitess-22 to version 22.0.4-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vitess-22 package and not the vitess-22 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Prior to version 10.2.3, 9.0.7, 8.0.6, 7.4.8, 6.2.2, 5.1.8, 4.2.5, and 3.1.4, nested *() extglobs produce regexps with nested unbounded quantifiers (e.g. (?:(?:a|b)*)*), which exhibit catastrophic backtracking in V8. With a 12-byte pattern *(*(*(a|b))) and an 18-byte non-matching input, minimatch() stalls for over 7 seconds. Adding a single nesting level or a few input characters pushes this to minutes. This is the most severe finding: it is triggered by the default minimatch() API with no special options, and the minimum viable pattern is only 12 bytes. The same issue affects +() extglobs equally. Versions 10.2.3, 9.0.7, 8.0.6, 7.4.8, 6.2.2, 5.1.8, 4.2.5, and 3.1.4 fix the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1