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CVE-2026-9496 high CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability in pacote (CVE-2026-9496)

Summary

Vulnerability in pacote (CVE-2026-9496). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 21.5.1 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-9496 has been found in pacote.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade pacote to 21.5.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "pacote CVE-2026-9496" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-9496 (pacote) — CWE-400 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 21.5.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-400) exists in pacote.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of pacote.

🔥 Severity

Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 21.5.1.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'pacote' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify 
    grep -r 'pacote' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で pacote を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patch patch 
    Upgrade pacote to 21.5.1

    ステージング環境で 21.5.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verification verify 
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

npm pacote
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"21.5.1"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

References

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