{"id":"CVE-2026-62326","aliases":["EUVD-2026-66718","GHSA-r52j-4vjp-q949"],"status":"published","title":"Weblate Has Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via","description":"Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a user with the built-in \"Edit source\" role can store a malicious regular expression in a source string's flags that is executed without any timeout, allowing them to stall requests and deny service. Regular expressions supplied through the regex: quality check and regex placeholders are compiled during validation but later run against translation content in RegexCheck and PlaceholderCheck with no time limit, so a catastrophic-backtracking pattern like ^(a|aa)+$ can consume CPU indefinitely. Because Weblate re-runs these checks for every linked target unit in the same request when a source unit's flags change, a single edit can trigger sustained CPU-bound denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2026.7.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00502,"percentile":0.43283,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"published":"2026-08-26T20:36:25Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:07Z","products":[{"vendor":"weblateorg","product":"weblate"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/security/advisories/GHSA-r52j-4vjp-q949","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/8fd8431414bec5c86dbc94815319fc474518286a","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/62xxx/CVE-2026-62326.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62326","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-62326","title":"Weblate Has Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via","description":"Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a user with the built-in \"Edit source\" role can store a malicious regular expression in a source string's flags that is executed without any timeout, allowing them to stall requests and deny service. Regular expressions supplied through the regex: quality check and regex placeholders are compiled during validation but later run against translation content in RegexCheck and PlaceholderCheck with no time limit, so a catastrophic-backtracking pattern like ^(a|aa)+$ can consume CPU indefinitely. Because Weblate re-runs these checks for every linked target unit in the same request when a source unit's flags change, a single edit can trigger sustained CPU-bound denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2026.7.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-26T20:36:25.043Z","modified":"2026-08-27T13:52:30.709Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:14.999906Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-66718","description":"Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a user with the built-in \"Edit source\" role can store a malicious regular expression in a source string's flags that is executed without any timeout, allowing them to stall requests and deny service. Regular expressions supplied through the regex: quality check and regex placeholders are compiled during validation but later run against translation content in RegexCheck and PlaceholderCheck with no time limit, so a catastrophic-backtracking pattern like ^(a|aa)+$ can consume CPU indefinitely. Because Weblate re-runs these checks for every linked target unit in the same request when a source unit's flags change, a single edit can trigger sustained CPU-bound denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2026.7.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-26T20:36:25Z","modified":"2026-08-27T13:52:30Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:28.581047Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-62326","description":"Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a user with the built-in \"Edit source\" role can store a malicious regular expression in a source string's flags that is executed without any timeout, allowing them to stall requests and deny service. Regular expressions supplied through the regex: quality check and regex placeholders are compiled during validation but later run against translation content in RegexCheck and PlaceholderCheck with no time limit, so a catastrophic-backtracking pattern like ^(a|aa)+$ can consume CPU indefinitely. Because Weblate re-runs these checks for every linked target unit in the same request when a source unit's flags change, a single edit can trigger sustained CPU-bound denial of service. 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Regular expressions supplied through the regex: quality check and regex placeholders are compiled during validation but later run against translation content in RegexCheck and PlaceholderCheck with no time limit, so a catastrophic-backtracking pattern like ^(a|aa)+$ can consume CPU indefinitely. Because Weblate re-runs these checks for every linked target unit in the same request when a source unit's flags change, a single edit can trigger sustained CPU-bound denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2026.7.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-26T20:36:25.043Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:07.964910684Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:13.306117Z"}]}}