5.3

CVE-2025-5890: actions toolkit Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 5.3v4.0MediumDeferred
Published 09-06-2025Last modified 09-06-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-5890 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in actions toolkit. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.42%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 09-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-06-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in actions toolkit 0.5.0. This affects the function globEscape of the file toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts of the component glob. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 2 sources · 4 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.41% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.42%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Actions1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

4 links