CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-31808

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-03-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-03-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. Prior to 21.3.1, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the ASF (WMV/WMA) file type detection parser. When parsing a crafted input where an ASF sub-header has a size field of zero, the parser enters an infinite loop. The payload value becomes negative (-24), causing tokenizer.ignore(payload) to move the read position backwards, so the same sub-header is read repeatedly forever. Any application that uses file-type to detect the type of untrusted/attacker-controlled input is affected. An attacker can stall the Node.js event loop with a 55-byte payload. Fixed in version 21.3.1.

Affected configurations

• sindresorhus file-type (>= 13.0.0 < 21.3.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References