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Devalue before 5.6.3 Denial of Service via Sparse Array Serialization

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Severity
high
Date
Affecting

  • devalue >= 0, < 5.6.3

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS
8.7
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
elliott-with-the-longest-name-on-github
Description
The devalue package for npm before 5.6.3 can consume excessive CPU and memory when serializing sparse arrays with uneval or stringify. An attacker who manages to get a sparse array created on the server, which mainstream wire formats do not allow, and serialized there can cause a denial of service.

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