GHSA-97r2-qh9m-474h
Seroval: fromJSON deserializer trusts node-supplied array length and sequence doneAt (unauthenticated event-loop DoS)
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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 `[email protected]`.
- 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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/security/advisories/GHSA-97r2-qh9m-474h
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116581
- https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/commit/cdcee3e3bc384ee844360844f8ea98fd2b275d69
- https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/commit/e176f9267e59ddd6c9de89cc9fe85c5b37a5b728
- https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval
- https://github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/releases/tag/[email protected]