Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting browserslist package, versions <4.28.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-BROWSERSLIST-18856271
  • published16 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditiaohkut-from-NightWolf-Team

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-73089  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade browserslist to version 4.28.7 or higher.

Overview

browserslist is a Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-env-preset

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the in-memory cache and parseCache in index.js. An attacker can eventually exhaust process memory and crash a long-running Node.js application by sending a stream of distinct query strings, causing each unique browserslist() result and parsed query AST to be retained indefinitely.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1