tarteaucitron.js before 1.37.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to block visitor pages by supplying unescaped cookie names to cookie.purge. Attackers can plant a cookie from a sibling subdomain or inject a purgeBtn element with a catastrophic-backtracking data-cookie pattern that freezes the page when the purge button is clicked.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

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Affected Vendors & Products

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Tarteaucitronjs Subscribe

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/blob/v1.36.0/tarteaucitron.js#L2169-L2175 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/commit/60faaba5fd541cad770549d422fc4ac7de657e56 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/releases/tag/v1.37.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tarteaucitron-js-before-1.37.0-redos-via-unescaped-cookie-name-in-cookie-purge cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description tarteaucitron.js before 1.37.0 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to block visitor pages by supplying unescaped cookie names to cookie.purge. Attackers can plant a cookie from a sibling subdomain or inject a purgeBtn element with a catastrophic-backtracking data-cookie pattern that freezes the page when the purge button is clicked.
Title tarteaucitron.js before 1.37.0 ReDoS via Unescaped Cookie Name in cookie.purge
First Time appeared Amauri
Amauri tarteaucitronjs
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:amauri:tarteaucitronjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Amauri
Amauri tarteaucitronjs
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 2.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-16T17:40:03.460Z

Reserved: 2026-10-16T14:31:23.634Z

Link: CVE-2026-111714

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-16T18:17:55.723

Modified: 2026-10-16T19:00:33.600

Link: CVE-2026-111714

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Updated: 2026-10-16T19:45:14Z

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