{"id":82759,"date":"2026-07-31T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-68499-re2-global-string-prototype-match-with-an-empty-matchable-pattern-never-advances-%e2%86%92-infinite-loop-with-unbounded-native-memory-growth-dos\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:18:12","slug":"cve-2026-68499-re2-global-string-prototype-match-with-an-empty-matchable-pattern-never-advances-%e2%86%92-infinite-loop-with-unbounded-native-memory-growth-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-68499-re2-global-string-prototype-match-with-an-empty-matchable-pattern-never-advances-%e2%86%92-infinite-loop-with-unbounded-native-memory-growth-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-68499 &#8211; re2: Global `String.prototype.match` with an empty-matchable pattern never advances \u2192 infinite loop with unbounded native memory growth (DoS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-68499<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 30, 2026, 9:18 p.m. | 27\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google&#8217;s RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2&#8217;s String.prototype.match implementation with a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string fails to advance its native matching cursor in lib\/match.cc, causing an infinite loop and unbounded native memory growth that blocks the event loop and can exhaust host memory. This issue is fixed in 1.25.2.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.2 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-68499 Published : July 30, 2026, 9:18 p.m. | 27\u00a0minutes ago Description :re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google&#8217;s RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2&#8217;s String.prototype.match implementation with a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string fails to advance its native matching cursor in lib\/match.cc, causing an infinite loop and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}