{"id":"CVE-2026-105646","aliases":["BIT-ghost-2026-105646","EUVD-2026-92636","GHSA-fwh9-qg68-vxp4"],"status":"published","title":"Ghost: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Content Import","description":"Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From 4.0.0 until 6.67.0, a crafted content import file could cause excessive CPU usage, making the Ghost server unresponsive. Exploiting this requires Administrator access. 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Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance [is documented here](https://docs.ghost.org/install/docker#updating-ghost). \n\nIf your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on [updating it to the latest version here](https://docs.ghost.org/update). \n\n### References\n\nGhost thanks [ka3n1x](https://github.com/ka3n1x) for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [security@ghost.org](mailto:security@ghost.org).","status":"published","published":"2026-10-07T20:42:53Z","modified":"2026-10-07T20:42:54Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-1333"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:41:29.107536Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-105646","description":"Ghost is a Node.js content management system. 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Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance [is documented here](https://docs.ghost.org/install/docker#updating-ghost). \n\nIf your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on [updating it to the latest version here](https://docs.ghost.org/update). \n\n### References\n\nGhost thanks [ka3n1x](https://github.com/ka3n1x) for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [security@ghost.org](mailto:security@ghost.org).","status":"published","published":"2026-10-07T20:42:53Z","modified":"2026-10-13T08:25:52.318807316Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-1333"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:47.119724Z"},{"id":"BIT-ghost-2026-105646","title":"Ghost: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Content Import","description":"Ghost is a Node.js content management system. 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