{"id":"CVE-2016-10540","aliases":["AZL-44502","CLSA-2026-1773620219","CLSA-2026-1774484503","CLSA-2026-1774484504","CLSA-2026-1774484505","CLSA-2026-1774484506","CLSA-2026-1777250299","CLSA-2026-1786361876","CLSA-2026-1790604852","DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10540","EUVD-2018-0621","GHSA-hxm2-r34f-qmc5","ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2016-10540","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10540","USN-4783-1"],"status":"published","title":"Regular Expression Denial of Service in minimatch","description":"Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript `RegExp` objects. The primary function, `minimatch(path, pattern)` in Minimatch 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to ReDoS in the `pattern` 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node module"},{"vendor":"minimatch_project","product":"minimatch"}],"references":[{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/118","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit","Third Party Advisory","evidence","report"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10540","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxm2-r34f-qmc5","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/118","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10540","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10540","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10540","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4783-1","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2016-10540","description":"Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript `RegExp` objects. The primary function, `minimatch(path, pattern)` in Minimatch 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to ReDoS in the `pattern` parameter.","status":"published","published":"2018-05-31T20:00:00Z","modified":"2024-09-16T19:24:48.196Z","cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:31.117878Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2018-0621","description":"Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript `RegExp` objects. 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