Glob keeps traversing the filesystem after AbortSignal timeout
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 49 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
The glob npm package, also published as node-glob, from 9.0.0 before 14.0.2 is affected. Abort branches in its walker invoke callbacks without returning, so traversal continues after an AbortSignal timeout or abort. When applications expose attacker-influenced patterns or directory trees, a remote unauthenticated attacker can repeat timed-out requests to stack background filesystem and CPU work, degrading availability (CWE-400).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-31
Description from the CNA
Glob matches files using patterns the shell uses. From 9.0.0 until 14.0.2, abort branches in src/walker.ts, including GlobUtil.walkCB(), GlobUtil.walkCB2(), GlobUtil.walkCBSync(), and GlobUtil.walkCB2Sync(), invoke the callbacks without returning. After AbortSignal or AbortSignal.timeout() rejects or emits an error, execution can continue into processor.processPatterns(), readdirCB(), and recursive traversal. The issue affects glob() and globStream() when applications expose attacker-influenced patterns or directory trees and rely on cancellation as a traversal budget. Repeated timed-out requests can stack background filesystem operations and CPU work, degrading worker throughput or service availability; no confidentiality or integrity impact was observed. This issue is fixed in 14.0.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| isaacs | node-glob | 9.0.0 to before 14.0.2 | 14.0.2 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | glob (npm) | 9.0.0 to before 14.0.2 | 14.0.2 | Patch available | GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4 |
- node-glob Vendorisaacs Affected 9.0.0 to before 14.0.2 Fixed in 14.0.2 Patch available CNA
- glob (npm) Vendor— Affected 9.0.0 to before 14.0.2 Fixed in 14.0.2 Patch available GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
Remediation
Update glob to 14.0.2, which fixes this issue. The sources list no fixed version for node-glob. Red Hat lists these products as affected without a fix: Cost Management On Premise, Cryostat 4, Exploit Intelligence (no fix planned), Migration Toolkit for Applications 8, Migration Toolkit for Containers (no fix planned) and other products.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-31
- Fix · CNA node-glob (isaacs) Fixed in 14.0.2
- Fix · GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4 glob (npm) Fixed in 14.0.2 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Cost Management On Premise | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Cryostat 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Exploit Intelligence | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Containers | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Node HealthCheck Operator | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| OpenShift Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Serverless | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 3 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Build of Keycloak | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Certification Program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Data Grid 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Developer Hub 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Directory Server 11 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Directory Server 12 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Directory Server 13 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Discovery 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Edge Manager 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Fuse 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Secrets Management Console for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Self-service automation portal 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| streams for Apache Kafka 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Hardened Images
Timeline
- 2026-10-29 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-118773
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-30 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-30 Alias added: GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: npm/[email protected] · GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
- 2026-10-30 CVSS score added · GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
- 2026-10-30 Weakness changed · GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
- 2026-10-30 5 new references · GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4
References
More isaacs vulnerabilities
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- TI-2026-42686 node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-24357 node-tar Symlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-23372 node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
Sources
- CVE-2026-118773 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-118773 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-118773 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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