diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a51889d..8d1ae02 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Security and Correctness
+
+- Replace backtracking-prone path-segment, temp-name, and Windows device-path sanitizers with linear scans to keep attacker-controlled inputs from causing excessive CPU use.
+
 ### Docs and Tooling
 
 - Publish only the validated release tarball after asserting its byte identity against the release manifest, and tolerate npm registry propagation with bounded exponential backoff.
diff --git a/src/device-path.ts b/src/device-path.ts
index 2bf572b..f700684 100644
--- a/src/device-path.ts
+++ b/src/device-path.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,33 @@ const WINDOWS_RESERVED_DEVICE_NAMES = new Set([
   "LPT³",
 ]);
 
+const WINDOWS_SEPARATOR_CHAR_CODE = 0x5c;
+const WINDOWS_IGNORED_SPACE_CHAR_CODE = 0x20;
+const WINDOWS_IGNORED_DOT_CHAR_CODE = 0x2e;
+
+function trimTrailingWindowsSeparators(value: string): string {
+  let end = value.length;
+  while (end > 0 && value.charCodeAt(end - 1) === WINDOWS_SEPARATOR_CHAR_CODE) {
+    end -= 1;
+  }
+  return end === value.length ? value : value.slice(0, end);
+}
+
+function trimTrailingWindowsIgnoredChars(value: string): string {
+  let end = value.length;
+  while (end > 0) {
+    const charCode = value.charCodeAt(end - 1);
+    if (
+      charCode !== WINDOWS_IGNORED_SPACE_CHAR_CODE &&
+      charCode !== WINDOWS_IGNORED_DOT_CHAR_CODE
+    ) {
+      break;
+    }
+    end -= 1;
+  }
+  return end === value.length ? value : value.slice(0, end);
+}
+
 function candidateReadPaths(filePath: string): string[] {
   if (!filePath.startsWith("file://")) {
     return [filePath];
@@ -97,10 +124,10 @@ function matchPosixDeviceReadPath(
 }
 
 function normalizeWindowsDeviceBaseName(filePath: string): string {
-  const normalized = filePath.replace(/\//g, "\\").replace(/[\\]+$/g, "");
+  const normalized = trimTrailingWindowsSeparators(filePath.replace(/\//g, "\\"));
   const lastSegment = normalized.split("\\").filter(Boolean).at(-1) ?? normalized;
   const withoutStream = lastSegment.split(":")[0] ?? lastSegment;
-  const withoutTrailingIgnoredChars = withoutStream.replace(/[ .]+$/g, "");
+  const withoutTrailingIgnoredChars = trimTrailingWindowsIgnoredChars(withoutStream);
   return (withoutTrailingIgnoredChars.split(".")[0] ?? withoutTrailingIgnoredChars).toUpperCase();
 }
 
diff --git a/src/safe-path-segment.ts b/src/safe-path-segment.ts
index 519694f..8c1f2a5 100644
--- a/src/safe-path-segment.ts
+++ b/src/safe-path-segment.ts
@@ -2,12 +2,25 @@ import { FsSafeError } from "./errors.js";
 
 const SAFE_PATH_SEGMENT_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9_-][A-Za-z0-9._-]*$/;
 const SAFE_DOT_PREFIX_PATH_SEGMENT_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$/;
+const HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE = 0x2d;
 
 export type SafePathSegmentOptions = {
   allowDotPrefix?: boolean;
   label?: string;
 };
 
+function trimHyphenEdges(value: string): string {
+  let start = 0;
+  let end = value.length;
+  while (start < end && value.charCodeAt(start) === HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE) {
+    start += 1;
+  }
+  while (end > start && value.charCodeAt(end - 1) === HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE) {
+    end -= 1;
+  }
+  return start === 0 && end === value.length ? value : value.slice(start, end);
+}
+
 export function isSafePathSegment(
   segment: string,
   options: SafePathSegmentOptions = {},
@@ -50,10 +63,10 @@ export function sanitizeSafePathSegment(
     .trim()
     .replace(/[\\/]+/g, "-")
     .replace(/\0/g, "")
-    .replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9._-]+/g, "-")
-    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
-  if (isSafePathSegment(sanitized, options)) {
-    return sanitized;
+    .replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9._-]+/g, "-");
+  const trimmed = trimHyphenEdges(sanitized);
+  if (isSafePathSegment(trimmed, options)) {
+    return trimmed;
   }
   return assertSafePathSegment(fallback, { ...options, label: "fallback path segment" });
 }
diff --git a/src/temp-target.ts b/src/temp-target.ts
index 9bb70f7..08c0464 100644
--- a/src/temp-target.ts
+++ b/src/temp-target.ts
@@ -13,8 +13,65 @@ export type TempFile = {
   [Symbol.asyncDispose](): Promise<void>;
 };
 
+const HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE = 0x2d;
+const DOT_CHAR_CODE = 0x2e;
+const NUMBER_ZERO_CHAR_CODE = 0x30;
+const NUMBER_NINE_CHAR_CODE = 0x39;
+const UPPERCASE_A_CHAR_CODE = 0x41;
+const UPPERCASE_Z_CHAR_CODE = 0x5a;
+const UNDERSCORE_CHAR_CODE = 0x5f;
+const LOWERCASE_A_CHAR_CODE = 0x61;
+const LOWERCASE_Z_CHAR_CODE = 0x7a;
+
+function trimHyphenEdges(value: string): string {
+  let start = 0;
+  let end = value.length;
+  while (start < end && value.charCodeAt(start) === HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE) {
+    start += 1;
+  }
+  while (end > start && value.charCodeAt(end - 1) === HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE) {
+    end -= 1;
+  }
+  return start === 0 && end === value.length ? value : value.slice(start, end);
+}
+
+function isExtensionCharCode(charCode: number): boolean {
+  return (
+    (charCode >= NUMBER_ZERO_CHAR_CODE && charCode <= NUMBER_NINE_CHAR_CODE) ||
+    (charCode >= UPPERCASE_A_CHAR_CODE && charCode <= UPPERCASE_Z_CHAR_CODE) ||
+    (charCode >= LOWERCASE_A_CHAR_CODE && charCode <= LOWERCASE_Z_CHAR_CODE) ||
+    charCode === DOT_CHAR_CODE ||
+    charCode === UNDERSCORE_CHAR_CODE ||
+    charCode === HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE
+  );
+}
+
+function trailingExtensionChars(value: string): string {
+  let start = value.length;
+  while (start > 0 && isExtensionCharCode(value.charCodeAt(start - 1))) {
+    start -= 1;
+  }
+  return start === value.length ? "" : value.slice(start);
+}
+
+function trimLeadingExtensionPunctuation(value: string): string {
+  let start = 0;
+  while (start < value.length) {
+    const charCode = value.charCodeAt(start);
+    if (
+      charCode !== DOT_CHAR_CODE &&
+      charCode !== UNDERSCORE_CHAR_CODE &&
+      charCode !== HYPHEN_CHAR_CODE
+    ) {
+      break;
+    }
+    start += 1;
+  }
+  return start === 0 ? value : value.slice(start);
+}
+
 function sanitizePrefix(prefix: string): string {
-  const normalized = prefix.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");
+  const normalized = trimHyphenEdges(prefix.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/g, "-"));
   return normalized || "tmp";
 }
 
@@ -23,8 +80,8 @@ function sanitizeExtension(extension?: string): string {
     return "";
   }
   const normalized = extension.startsWith(".") ? extension : `.${extension}`;
-  const suffix = normalized.match(/[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$/)?.[0] ?? "";
-  const token = suffix.replace(/^[._-]+/, "");
+  const suffix = trailingExtensionChars(normalized);
+  const token = trimLeadingExtensionPunctuation(suffix);
   return token ? `.${token}` : "";
 }
 
diff --git a/test/codeql-redos-regression.test.ts b/test/codeql-redos-regression.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ee8697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/codeql-redos-regression.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import path from "node:path";
+import { performance } from "node:perf_hooks";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { isUnsafeDeviceReadPath } from "../src/device-path.js";
+import { sanitizeSafePathSegment } from "../src/safe-path-segment.js";
+import { buildRandomTempFilePath } from "../src/temp-target.js";
+
+const ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH = 100_000;
+const MAX_LINEAR_SCAN_MS = 1_000;
+
+function expectBounded<T>(run: () => T): T {
+  const startedAt = performance.now();
+  const result = run();
+  expect(performance.now() - startedAt).toBeLessThan(MAX_LINEAR_SCAN_MS);
+  return result;
+}
+
+describe("CodeQL ReDoS regressions", () => {
+  it("handles long internal Windows separator runs in linear time", () => {
+    const separators = "\\".repeat(ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH);
+
+    expect(
+      expectBounded(() =>
+        isUnsafeDeviceReadPath(`C:\\tmp\\${separators}normal.txt`, {
+          platform: "win32",
+        }),
+      ),
+    ).toBe(false);
+    expect(
+      expectBounded(() =>
+        isUnsafeDeviceReadPath(`C:\\tmp\\${separators}NUL`, {
+          platform: "win32",
+        }),
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("preserves long internal hyphen runs while trimming only edges", () => {
+    const internalHyphens = `a${"-".repeat(ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH)}b`;
+
+    expect(
+      expectBounded(() => sanitizeSafePathSegment(internalHyphens, "fallback")),
+    ).toBe(internalHyphens);
+    expect(sanitizeSafePathSegment(`---${internalHyphens}---`, "fallback")).toBe(
+      internalHyphens,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("sanitizes long temp prefixes and extension candidates in linear time", () => {
+    const internalHyphens = `a${"-".repeat(ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH)}b`;
+    const prefixed = expectBounded(() =>
+      buildRandomTempFilePath({
+        rootDir: process.cwd(),
+        prefix: internalHyphens,
+        now: 1,
+        uuid: "id",
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(path.basename(prefixed)).toBe(`${internalHyphens}-1-id`);
+
+    const invalidExtension = expectBounded(() =>
+      buildRandomTempFilePath({
+        rootDir: process.cwd(),
+        prefix: "tmp",
+        extension: `${"a".repeat(ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH)}!`,
+        now: 1,
+        uuid: "id",
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(path.basename(invalidExtension)).toBe("tmp-1-id");
+
+    expect(
+      path.basename(
+        buildRandomTempFilePath({
+          rootDir: process.cwd(),
+          prefix: "tmp",
+          extension: `${".".repeat(ADVERSARIAL_RUN_LENGTH)}log`,
+          now: 1,
+          uuid: "id",
+        }),
+      ),
+    ).toBe("tmp-1-id.log");
+  });
+});