GHSA-97r2-qh9m-474h

Seroval: fromJSON deserializer trusts node-supplied array length and sequence doneAt (unauthenticated event-loop DoS)

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-116581
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

### Summary `fromJSON` and `fromCrossJSON` used two node fields without checking them. - An array node's element list was not checked to be an array. A small payload could set the length the decoder looped over. This part is also tracked in GHSA-wp97-x4hv-qvhp. - A sequence node's done index was not checked. A crafted value produced an iterator that never finished. ### Impact A service that passes untrusted input to `fromJSON` or `fromCrossJSON` can be made unavailable by an unauthenticated request. - The array case blocks the thread while the decoder runs. - The sequence case makes any code that reads the resulting iterator to the end run forever. ### Patches Fixed in `seroval@1.6.8`. - Element lists must be arrays. - A sequence node's throw and done indices must be integers from -1 up to the last element index. Invalid input throws `SerovalMalformedNodeError`. ### Workarounds None. Upgrade to 1.6.8.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · serovalintroduced 0, fixed 1.6.8

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database