CVE-2026-103043
highanchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking.
anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated patterns to cause exponential regex engine backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop and denying service to other requests.
CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-29 23:17
Modified: 2026-10-20 02:17
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:56 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://gist.github.com/R3tro16/92948206e9893a3739b91746439384ab disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js/blob/f3ae9850baa344f27b46bb149e9b891831d273b1/src... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/anchorme disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anchorme-through-3.0.8-regular-expression-denial-of-s... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:56 UTC · record ↗
