What is CVE-2026-71498?

CVE-2026-71498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uhop Node-re2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2026-08-06.

How severe is CVE-2026-71498?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Uhop Node-re2

CVE-2026-71498

node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer whose final bytes form a truncated (incomplete) multi-byte UTF-8 sequence could cause the native binding to read past the end of the a…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Uhop Node-re2 — versions < 1.26.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71498?: CVE-2026-71498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uhop Node-re2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2026-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2026-71498?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.