Resource Exhaustion Affecting prism package, versions <5.14.3-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-PRISM-15062024
  • published23 Jan 2026
  • disclosed22 Jan 2026

Introduced: 22 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-24001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard prism to version 5.14.3-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream prism package and not the prism package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

jsdiff is a JavaScript text differencing implementation. Prior to versions 8.0.3, 5.2.2, 4.0.4, and 3.5.1, attempting to parse a patch whose filename headers contain the line break characters \r, \u2028, or \u2029 can cause the parsePatch method to enter an infinite loop. It then consumes memory without limit until the process crashes due to running out of memory. Applications are therefore likely to be vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack if they call parsePatch with a user-provided patch as input. A large payload is not needed to trigger the vulnerability, so size limits on user input do not provide any protection. Furthermore, some applications may be vulnerable even when calling parsePatch on a patch generated by the application itself if the user is nonetheless able to control the filename headers (e.g. by directly providing the filenames of the files to be diffed). The applyPatch method is similarly affected if (and only if) called with a string representation of a patch as an argument, since under the hood it parses that string using parsePatch. Other methods of the library are unaffected. Finally, a second and lesser interdependent bug - a ReDOS - also exhibits when those same line break characters are present in a patch's patch header (also known as its "leading garbage"). A maliciously-crafted patch header of length n can take parsePatch O(n³) time to parse. Versions 8.0.3, 5.2.2, 4.0.4, and 3.5.1 contain a fix. As a workaround, do not attempt to parse patches that contain any of these characters: \r, \u2028, or \u2029.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1