n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the Git node clone operation matched an attacker-controlled destination path against the default N8N_BLOCK_FILE_PATTERNS regular expression. The pattern ^(./).git(/.)$ allowed catastrophic backtracking and ran synchronously in the main n8n process. An authenticated workflow editor could therefore freeze the instance with one workflow execution; the affected default is declared in packages/@n8n/config/src/configs/security.config.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.
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| Description | n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the Git node clone operation matched an attacker-controlled destination path against the default N8N_BLOCK_FILE_PATTERNS regular expression. The pattern ^(./).git(/.)$ allowed catastrophic backtracking and ran synchronously in the main n8n process. An authenticated workflow editor could therefore freeze the instance with one workflow execution; the affected default is declared in packages/@n8n/config/src/configs/security.config.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2. | |
| Title | n8n: Regular Expression Denial of Service in the Default Blocked-File-Pattern Match via a Git Node Clone Path | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-09-08T21:24:20.936Z
Updated: 2026-09-09T13:45:42.273Z
Reserved: 2026-09-04T19:34:03.100Z
Link: CVE-2026-86081
Updated: 2026-09-09T13:45:39.534Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-08T22:19:17.093
Modified: 2026-09-09T20:16:54.383
Link: CVE-2026-86081
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