CVE-2025-5890 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-5890

actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • mmmsssttt (VulDB User)

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
0.5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 9th, 2025
Last Modified: June 9th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:T/RC:R

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333 CWE-400

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1496 Resource Hijacking
Impact
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1070 Indicator Removal on Host
Defense Evasion
T1498 Network Denial of Service
Impact