Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting nodejs/node package, versions [24.0.0, 24.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NODEJSNODE-10841155
  • published20 Jul 2025
  • disclosed18 Jul 2025
  • creditsharp_edged

Introduced: 18 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-27209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nodejs/node to version 24.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the use of rapidhash in the V8 engine. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by generating a large number of hash collisions with specially crafted inputs, without needing to know the hash seed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1