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CVE-2025-5890: actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in actions toolkit 0.5.0. This affects the function globEscape of the file toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts of the component glob. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.

Affected products

• actions toolkit: 0.5.0

References

• https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2057
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311661
• https://vuldb.com/?id.311661
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.585727

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