Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting devalue package, versions >=5.6.3 <5.8.1
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- published15 May 2026
- disclosed14 May 2026
- creditkq5y
Introduced: 14 May 2026
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How to fix?
Upgrade devalue to version 5.8.1 or higher.
Overview
devalue is a JSON.stringify, but handles cyclical references, repeated references, undefined, regular expressions, dates, Map and Set.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the parse function. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by providing specially crafted sparse arrays during deserialization.