CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-49293

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-06-19 Modified 2026-10-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-06-19
Last modified
2026-10-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333, CWE-400, CWE-407

Description

js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript, fully compliant with the TOML 1.0.0 Spec. Versions up to and including 1.1.0 parse hexadecimal / octal / binary integer literals via a hand-written `parseBigInt` loop that multiplies a `BigInt` accumulator by the radix once per input digit. Each iteration performs a `BigInt * BigInt` operation on an accumulator that grows linearly with the number of digits already consumed, so the whole loop is O(n²) in the literal length. The lexer regex places no upper bound on the literal length, so a single TOML document containing one ~500 kB hex literal pins one CPU core for ~40 seconds on a modern laptop (Apple M-series, Node v22). Memory amplification is bounded but CPU amplification is severe and grows quadratically: doubling the literal length quadruples the work. A caller that invokes `load()` on attacker-controlled TOML (configuration upload endpoints, CI/CD systems ingesting third-party `*.toml`, IDE plugins, build tools) is exposed to a single-request CPU exhaustion DoS. Version 1.1.1 fixes the issue.

Affected configurations

• sunnyadn js-toml (< 1.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References