SB20260422207 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in path-to-regexp



SB20260422207 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in path-to-regexp

Published: April 22, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB20260422207
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-4867)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a bad regular expression is generated any time you have three or more parameters within a single segment, separated by something that is not a period (.). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.