Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting devalue package, versions <5.9.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-DEVALUE-19883911
  • published17 Sept 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2026
  • creditkq5y

Introduced: 16 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-81176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade devalue to version 5.9.2 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 via the parse function. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting specially crafted input that triggers repeated alternation between array representations, leading to significant performance degradation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1