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CVE-2025-5890

actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos



Description

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in actions toolkit 0.5.0. This affects the function globEscape of the file toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts of the component glob. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.

Es wurde eine Schwachstelle in actions toolkit 0.5.0 entdeckt. Sie wurde als problematisch eingestuft. Hiervon betroffen ist die Funktion globEscape der Datei toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts der Komponente glob. Durch das Beeinflussen mit unbekannten Daten kann eine inefficient regular expression complexity-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Der Angriff kann über das Netzwerk angegangen werden.

Reserved 2025-06-09 | Published 2025-06-09 | Updated 2025-06-09 | Assigner VulDB


MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:T/RC:R
MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:T/RC:R
4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:ND/RL:TF/RC:UR

Problem types

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Resource Consumption

Product status

0.5.0
affected

Timeline

2025-06-09:Advisory disclosed
2025-06-09:VulDB entry created
2025-06-09:VulDB entry last update

Credits

mmmsssttt (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.311661 (VDB-311661 | actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.311661 (VDB-311661 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.585727 (Submit #585727 | @actions @actions/glob 0.5.0 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity) third-party-advisory

github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2057 issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2025-5890)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5890)

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