CVE-2026-9496
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Published
May 26, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted spec.rawSpec value that triggers the function’s regex replacement and string-manipulation logic, causing excessive CPU consumption and potentially stalling or crashing the process.