CVE-2026-59094

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

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 2, 2026 at 07:40 PM UTC
Updated: October 25, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPathway

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
PoC

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 0.31.1
Vendor states this is fixed in d09722eef03fd94bba701836eb4c7fbfa3d3b88e (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-407

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