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SCA: security update for picomatch (GHSA-c2c7-rcm5-vvqj)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 439235

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Picomatch is a glob matcher written JavaScript. Versions prior to 4.0.4, 3.0.2, and 2.3.2 are vulnerable
 to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when processing crafted extglob patterns. Certain patterns
 using extglob quantifiers such as `+()` and `*()`, especially when combined with overlapping alternatives
 or nested extglobs, are compiled into regular expressions that can exhibit catastrophic backtracking on
 non-matching input. Applications are impacted when they allow untrusted users to supply glob patterns that
 are passed to `picomatch` for compilation or matching. In those cases, an attacker can cause excessive CPU
 consumption and block the Node.js event loop, resulting in a denial of service. Applications that only use
 trusted, developer-controlled glob patterns are much less likely to be exposed in a security-relevant way.
 This issue is fixed in picomatch 4.0.4, 3.0.2 and 2.3.2. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or
 later, depending on their supported release line. If upgrading is not immediately possible, avoid passing
 untrusted glob patterns to `picomatch`. Possible mitigations include disabling extglob support for
 untrusted patterns by using `noextglob: true`, rejecting or sanitizing patterns containing nested extglobs
 or extglob quantifiers such as `+()` and `*()`, enforcing strict allowlists for accepted pattern syntax,
 running matching in an isolated worker or separate process with time and resource limits, and applying
 application-level request throttling and input validation for any endpoint that accepts glob patterns.
 (CVE-2026-33671)

Solution

Update the picomatch library and its related packages to version 2.3.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2c7-rcm5-vvqj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 439235

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/26/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.35

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33671

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33671