Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting kube-logging-operator package, versions <6.5.0-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-KUBELOGGINGOPERATOR-19516729
  • published3 Sept 2026
  • disclosed25 Aug 2026

Introduced: 25 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-79770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi kube-logging-operator to version 6.5.0-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Nokogiri versions before 1.19.3 contain regular expression denial of service vulnerabilities in the CSS selector tokenizer affecting string-literal and identifier tokenization. Attackers can inject adversarial CSS selectors into methods like Node#css, Node#at_css, and Searchable#search to cause exponential regex backtracking and denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1