Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting @stablelib/cbor package, versions <2.0.3


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Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-STABLELIBCBOR-15954315
  • published9 Apr 2026
  • disclosed4 Apr 2026
  • creditJvr2022 Jvr

Introduced: 4 Apr 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade @stablelib/cbor to version 2.0.3 or higher.

Overview

@stablelib/cbor is a CBOR encoder and decoder

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion when decoding. An attacker can cause the application to crash or terminate unexpectedly by supplying a deeply nested, attacker-controlled CBOR payload that exhausts the call stack during recursive decoding.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1