glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-28469 · BIT-gulp-2020-28469 · GHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6 · Published 03/06/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-28469 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting glob-parent (gulpjs), communications cloud native core policy (oracle), glob-parent.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.6%, higher than 91.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.1.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
glob-parent gulpjs	`< 5.1.2`	`5.1.2`
communications cloud native core policy oracle	`= 1.14.0`	No fix yet
glob-parent npm	`≥ 4.0.0, < 5.1.2`	`5.1.2`

This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator.

NVD description

This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 5.1.2

5.1.2

= 1.14.0

No fix yet

npm

≥ 4.0.0, < 5.1.2

5.1.2

Description

This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator.

NVD description

This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator.