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GHSA-hvq2-wf92-j4f3

express-xss-sanitizer has an unbounded recursion depth

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-59364

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm express-xss-sanitizer < 2.0.1 2.0.1

Details

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# Security Advisory: express-xss-sanitizer ## Overview A vulnerability was discovered in express-xss-sanitizer that allowed unbounded recursion depth during sanitization of nested objects. ## Affected Versions - All versions prior to 2.0.1 ## Patched Versions - 2.0.1 and later ## Description The sanitize function in lib/sanitize.js performed recursive sanitization without depth limiting, making it vulnerable to stack overflow attacks via specially crafted deeply nested JSON objects. ## Impact An attacker could cause denial-of-service by sending a request with deeply nested structures, potentially crashing the Node.js process. ## Solution Upgrade to version 2.0.1 or later: ```bash npm install express-xss-sanitizer@latest ```

References

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