GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-33hq-fvwr-56pm devalue affected by CPU and memory amplification from sparse arrays
LOW
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- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- devalue
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2026-02-19
Affected packages
• npm devalue: < 5.6.3 → fixed in 5.6.3
Description
Under certain circumstances, serializing sparse arrays using `uneval` or `stringify` could cause CPU and/or memory exhaustion. When this occurs on the server, it results in a DoS. This is extremely difficult to take advantage of in practice, as an attacker would have to manage to create a sparse array on the server — which is impossible in every mainstream wire format — and then that sparse array would have to be run through `uneval` or `stringify`.
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Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness