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CVE-2026-111714

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Description

tarteaucitron.js before 1.37.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to block visitor pages by supplying unescaped cookie names to cookie.purge. Attackers can plant a cookie from a sibling subdomain or inject a purgeBtn element with a catastrophic-backtracking data-cookie pattern that freezes the page when the purge button is clicked.

Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.3 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-16 18:17:55.723000
Last modified
2026-10-21 22:16:47.097000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-111714",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-16T18:17:55.723",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-21T22:16:47.097",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "value": "tarteaucitron.js before 1.37.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to block visitor pages by supplying unescaped cookie names to cookie.purge. Attackers can plant a cookie from a sibling subdomain or inject a purgeBtn element with a catastrophic-backtracking data-cookie pattern that freezes the page when the purge button is clicked."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
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          "product": "tarteaucitron.js",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "repo": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js",
          "packageURL": "pkg:github/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "0",
              "lessThan": "1.37.0",
              "versionType": "semver",
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            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {
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          "modifiedSubIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED",
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        }
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  "weaknesses": [
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        }
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    }
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/blob/v1.36.0/tarteaucitron.js#L2169-L2175",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/commit/60faaba5fd541cad770549d422fc4ac7de657e56",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/releases/tag/v1.37.0",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tarteaucitron-js-before-1.37.0-redos-via-unescaped-cookie-name-in-cookie-purge",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}