CVE-2026-59094 PUBLISHED

Pathway - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Exponential Glob Pattern Matching in Document Store

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 02.07.2026 Published: 02.07.2026 Updated: 02.07.2026

Pathway through 0.31.1, fixed in commit d09722e, document store applies a caller-supplied glob pattern to indexed document paths using a hand-written recursive matcher that branches two ways on each ** token without memoization, giving exponential worst-case complexity. The filepath_globpattern value is taken from the body of the unauthenticated HTTP endpoints /v1/retrieve, /v1/inputs and /v2/answer and compiled into a filter evaluated once per indexed document, with no length or **-count limit. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a short pattern containing many ** tokens to consume CPU for tens of seconds per request, and a small number of requests denies service.

Metrics

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
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor pathwaycom
Product pathway
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.31.1 (incl.)
  • Version d09722eef03fd94bba701836eb4c7fbfa3d3b88e is unaffected

Credits

  • George Chen finder

References

Problem Types

  • Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE