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chore(deps): update dependency minimatch to v10 [security]#2680

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This PR contains the following updates:

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minimatch ^9.0.0^10.0.0 age confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2026-26996

Summary

minimatch is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when a glob pattern contains many consecutive * wildcards followed by a literal character that doesn't appear in the test string. Each * compiles to a separate [^/]*? regex group, and when the match fails, V8's regex engine backtracks exponentially across all possible splits.

The time complexity is O(4^N) where N is the number of * characters. With N=15, a single minimatch() call takes ~2 seconds. With N=34, it hangs effectively forever.

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PoC

When minimatch compiles a glob pattern, each * becomes [^/]*? in the generated regex. For a pattern like ***************X***:

/^(?!\.)[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?X[^/]*?[^/]*?[^/]*?$/

When the test string doesn't contain X, the regex engine must try every possible way to distribute the characters across all the [^/]*? groups before concluding no match exists. With N groups and M characters, this is O(C(N+M, N)) — exponential.

Impact

Any application that passes user-controlled strings to minimatch() as the pattern argument is vulnerable to DoS. This includes:

  • File search/filter UIs that accept glob patterns
  • .gitignore-style filtering with user-defined rules
  • Build tools that accept glob configuration
  • Any API that exposes glob matching to untrusted input

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@renovate renovate bot requested review from JasonVMo and tido64 as code owners February 23, 2026 06:46
@renovate renovate bot added the dependencies Pull requests that update a dependency file label Feb 23, 2026
@tido64 tido64 merged commit 505fdee into trunk Feb 23, 2026
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@tido64 tido64 deleted the renovate/npm-minimatch-vulnerability branch February 23, 2026 09:07
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