SCA: security update for re2 (GHSA-6hxr-mr5r-9836)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445566

Description

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

- re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google's RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2's
String.prototype.match implementation with a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string fails to
advance its native matching cursor in lib/match.cc, causing an infinite loop and unbounded native memory
growth that blocks the event loop and can exhaust host memory. This issue is fixed in 1.25.2.
(CVE-2026-68499)

Solution

Update the re2 library and its related packages to version 1.25.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 445566

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/1/2026

Updated: 8/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.74

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-68499

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: 7/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-68499

cwe: CWE-835

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