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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2026-67550 EUVD-2026-51297GHSA-ff84-5f28-78qj

re2: Out-of-bounds heap read in `exec`/`test`/`match` via attacker-influenced `lastIndex` on a non-ASCII subject → uncatchable process crash (DoS)

Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 31, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google's RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2 validates lastIndex against the UTF-8 byte length of a subject but uses it as a UTF-16 code-unit offset in exec, test, match, replace, and split, allowing an attacker-influenced lastIndex on a non-ASCII subject to trigger an out-of-bounds heap read and an uncatchable process crash, with limited heap information disclosure in some cases. This issue is fixed in 1.25.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
uhop node-re2 < 1.25.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-re2 1.26.1+~cs1.7.0-1 —
Debian 13 node-re2 No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-re2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-re2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-re2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-re2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-re2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-re2 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm re2 < 1.25.2 1.25.2 GHSA-ff84-5f28-78qj

References