CVE-2026-70656

medium

Description

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. From 3.5.1 until 3.9.2, an authenticated admin or superadmin can set matchMethod to regex and place a malicious expression in the expectedValue field for advanced HTTP monitor matching. server/src/api/validation/monitorValidation.ts accepts the expression, and server/src/service/network/AdvancedMatcher.ts synchronously evaluates it against an attacker-controlled HTTP response body on the Node.js main event loop without a timeout or worker isolation, allowing catastrophic backtracking to freeze API endpoints, monitor checks, and WebSocket connections for all users. This issue is fixed in version 3.9.2.

References

https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/security/advisories/GHSA-4c6j-p2cv-wf56

https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/releases/tag/v3.9.2

https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/commit/d5ec2936ad77ab773529057b442a6eb55dd578eb

https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/commit/adba25269c455878bf8065bc28cfe5d74e58692f

https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/commit/0df71d6356c87c747e0b796b0c34e33f2a5203fa

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-21

Updated: 2026-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00416