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A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a short pattern containing many ** tokens to consume CPU for tens of seconds per request, and a small number of requests denies service.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00793,"percentile":0.56669,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-407"],"published":"2026-07-02T19:40:50Z","modified":"2026-11-09T02:47:26Z","products":[{"vendor":"extend themes","product":"pathway"},{"vendor":"pathwaycom","product":"pathway"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/issues/241","tags":["technical-description","exploit","issue-tracking","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/pull/250","tags":["issue-tracking","patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/commit/d09722eef03fd94bba701836eb4c7fbfa3d3b88e","tags":["patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pathway-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-via-exponential-glob-pattern-matching-in-document-store","tags":["third-party-advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59094","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-22xx-xg3v-m8g7"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/59xxx/CVE-2026-59094.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-59094","title":"Pathway - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Exponential Glob Pattern Matching in Document Store","description":"Pathway through 0.31.1, fixed in commit d09722e, document store applies a caller-supplied glob pattern to indexed document paths using a hand-written recursive matcher that branches two ways on each ** token without memoization, giving exponential worst-case complexity. 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