Infinite loop Affecting seroval package, versions <1.6.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-SEROVAL-21755422
  • published27 Oct 2026
  • disclosed26 Oct 2026
  • creditrealies

Introduced: 26 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-116581  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seroval to version 1.6.8 or higher.

Overview

seroval is a Stringify JS values

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop via deserializeSequence in deserializer.ts when processing a sequence node whose done or throw index is non-numeric or out of range. An attacker can supply a malformed serialized payload with an invalid done index, causing the deserialized iterator to never terminate and hanging the process indefinitely.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1