High severity · published Sep 29, 2026
CVE-2026-103043
anchorme through 3.0.8 Regular Expression Denial of Service
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated patterns to cause exponential regex engine backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop and denying service to other requests.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
anchorme · alexcorvi
through 3.0.8 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103043
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-103043
third-party-advisory
https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
technical-description
https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js/blob/f3ae9850baa344f27b46bb149e9b891831d273b1/src/index.ts#L109
product
https://www.npmjs.com/package/anchorme
product
https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anchorme-through-3.0.8-regular-expression-denial-of-service
technical-description
https://gist.github.com/R3tro16/92948206e9893a3739b91746439384ab
