Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting minimatch package, versions <11.0.1
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MINIMATCH-22111072
- published1 Nov 2026
- disclosed27 Oct 2026
- creditReid Downing
Introduced: 27 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-118764 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade minimatch to version 11.0.1 or higher.
Overview
minimatch is a minimal matching utility.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) in the firstPhasePreProcess method, where the **/.. transform clones a globParts entry and pushes the clone back onto the same array inside a do...while (didSomething) fixpoint loop. An attacker can exhaust CPU and memory by supplying a glob pattern whose **/.. sequences regenerate entries during preprocessing, which secondPhasePreProcess then compares in an O(n^2) pairwise partsMatch pass over the expanded set. Exploitation requires the pattern to be parsed with optimizationLevel set to 2 or higher.