CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-10692 — A weakness has been identified in johnhuang316 code-index-mcp up to 2.14.0

Medium CVSS 4.3

A weakness has been identified in johnhuang316 code-index-mcp up to 2.14.0. Affected is the function is_safe_regex_pattern of the component search_code_advanced. Executing a manipulation of the argument regex can lead to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 2.14.1 is able to address this issue. This patch is called 25bc02fac74051ddae15ce79e952f00211b1ea6b. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.3 (3.1)
Published
2026-06-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-1333

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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