CVE-2026-103043 HIGH

CVE-2026-103043: anchorme through 3.0.8 Regular Expression Denial of Service

Vendor Alexcorvi
Product anchorme
Weakness CWE-1333
Published September 29, 2026
Last update October 20, 2026

CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated patterns to cause exponential regex engine backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop and denying service to other requests.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 29, 2026 CVE published
October 20, 2026 Record updated