GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-48qf-xh34-q73r MariaDB Connector/Node.js exposes uninitialized process memory through malformed GeoJSON parameters
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-107383
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- mariadb
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-08
Affected packages
• npm mariadb: < 3.2.5 → fixed in 3.2.5
• npm mariadb: >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.4 → fixed in 3.3.4
• npm mariadb: >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.7 → fixed in 3.4.7
• npm mariadb: >= 3.5.0-rc.0, < 3.5.4 → fixed in 3.5.4
Description
Description
When encoding a GeoJSON Polygon or MultiPolygon parameter for the binary protocol, the connector sized its output buffer from the length property of each ring, then wrote each ring only if it was a real array. The two loops disagreed: any non-array ring carrying a numeric length (a string, or an object such as {"length": 4000}) still reserved 4 + 16 * length bytes, but wrote none of them. The buffer came from Buffer.allocUnsafe() and was returned in full regardless of how far the write position had advanced, so every reserved-but-unwritten byte was uninitialized Node.js heap.
The sibling LineString case handled this correctly, aborting with null on the first malformed point, so no reserved byte could escape unwritten.
The only gate on this path is value.type naming a GeoJSON type, so any object shaped like {"type": "Polygon", ...} reached the encoder.
Impact
An application that passes an attacker-influenced object as a parameter to execute() or batch() writes uninitialized process memory into the database, where it is readable by anyone who can read that row and persists into backups and replicas. Applications accepting GeoJSON for map or location features are the natural case, as the attacker controls coordinates directly.
The disclosed memory is not scoped to the requesting user: in a shared Node.js process the heap may hold other users' request and response bodies, session tokens and cookies, database credentials and TLS key material. The leak is silent — the insert succeeds and the column simply holds more bytes than it should.
No non-default connector option and no particular server configuration are required. query() is not affected: the text encoder builds geometry as strings rather than through Buffer.allocUnsafe().
Resolution
Both the Polygon and MultiPolygon encoders now reject a non-array ring before reserving space for it, so no byte of the allocation can be left uninitialized by the writing loop, matching the existing LineString behaviour.
Workarounds
Validate that GeoJSON coordinates are properly nested arrays of numbers before passing the object as a parameter, or use query(), until upgraded.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-107383 MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/security/advisories/GHSA-48qf-xh34-q73r web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/commit/2314c03b785db482599d2befd06f4992e5fc46b3 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/commit/a4aa048b57dc47309b80e5cc25a4a8eedb32fd9f web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/commit/b2ca628864b0fc2e3e94ea96910f6b693ad5bd30 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/commit/faa27d1b2b7753a54000f586d5148089b60d1284 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs package
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/releases/tag/3.2.5 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/releases/tag/3.3.4 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/releases/tag/3.4.7 web
- https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-nodejs/releases/tag/3.5.4 web
- https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/CONJS-367 web