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High 7.5Published Jul 2, 2026

CVE-2026-59094Pathway - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Exponential Glob Pattern Matching in Document Store

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Pathway through 0.31.1, fixed in commit d09722e, document store applies a caller-supplied glob pattern to indexed document paths using a hand-written recursive matcher that branches two ways on each ** token without memoization, giving exponential worst-case complexity. The filepath_globpattern value is taken from the body of the unauthenticated HTTP endpoints /v1/retrieve, /v1/inputs and /v2/answer and compiled into a filter evaluated once per indexed document, with no length or **-count limit. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a short pattern containing many ** tokens to consume CPU for tens of seconds per request, and a small number of requests denies service.

CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-407
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
VulnCheck
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Jul 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
pathwaycom pathway
pathwaycom:pathway (from the name)
through 0.31.1; d09722eef03fd94bba701836eb4c7fbfa3d3b88e not affected
CNA record

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