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CVE-2025-5890 (GCVE-0-2025-5890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-09 18:31 – Updated: 2025-06-09 18:44
VLAI
Title
actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-09 18:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-400 - Resource Consumption
References
URL Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.311661 vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311661 signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.585727 third-party-advisory
https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2057 issue-tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
actions toolkit Affected: 0.5.0
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