Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting swift package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-SWIFT-18533410
  • published5 Aug 2026
  • disclosed5 Aug 2026

Introduced: 5 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-71190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Echo:latest swift.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swift package and not the swift package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In OpenStack Swift through 2.38.0, the proxy server Accept header parser contains a regular expression vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS). The "qdtext" pattern (?:[^"]|\.)* allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send a crafted Accept header that causes exponential CPU consumption in the proxy worker. A payload of 32 backslash-character pairs exceeds 30 seconds of CPU time. No authentication is required. Repeated requests can exhaust all proxy worker threads, resulting in a complete denial of service.