NPM: re2: Global `String.prototype.match` with an empty-matchable pattern never advances → infinite loop with unbounded native memory growth (DoS)

NPM: re2: Global String.prototype.match with an empty-matchable pattern never advances → infinite loop with unbounded native memory growth DoS vulnerability discovered by ? in WordPress Npm re2 versions = 1.25.1...

CVE-2026-68499 re2: Global `String.prototype.match` with an empty-matchable pattern never advances → infinite loop with unbounded native memory growth (DoS)

re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google's RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2'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 nati...

CVE-2026-68499

CVE-2026-68499 concerns the re2 Node.js bindings. Affected component is the String.prototype.match implementation in re2 when using a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string. The underlying issue is that the native matching cursor is not advanced in lib/match.cc, causing an infinite lo...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1304

The URL pattern of "" the empty string which exactly maps to the context root was not correctly handled in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.4, 8.5.0 to 8.5.27, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.84 when used as part of a security constraint definition. This caused the constraint to be ignored. It...