Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting wazuh-dashboard-fips package, versions <4.14.5-r11


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10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-WAZUHDASHBOARDFIPS-17813266
  • published4 Jul 2026
  • disclosed20 Feb 2026

Introduced: 20 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-26996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard wazuh-dashboard-fips to version 4.14.5-r11 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wazuh-dashboard-fips package and not the wazuh-dashboard-fips 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. 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.

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