PT-2026-55295 · Pathwaycom · Pathway

George Chen · Published 2026-07-02 · Updated 2026-07-02 · CVE-2026-59094

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-407

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-59094

Affected Products

Pathway

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/issues/241 · Exploit
• https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/commit/d09722eef03fd94bba701836eb4c7fbfa3d3b88e · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59094 · Security Note
• https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/pull/250 · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/pathway-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-via-exponential-glob-pattern-matching-in-document-store · Note