GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-86vw-mfpg-wwv9 jsonata: Malicious inputs to "$toMillis" function can cause resource exhaustion

HIGH Published 2026-07-02 Modified 2026-08-03 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-52746
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
jsonata
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2026-07-02

Affected packages

• npm jsonata: >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.0 → fixed in 2.2.0 • npm jsonata: < 1.8.9 → fixed in 1.8.9

Description

Impact Before JSONata `2.2.0` and `1.8.9`, it is possible to craft non-matching inputs to the $toMillis function that cause superlinear backtracking in the ISO-8601 validation regex. This may lead to denial of service in applications that evaluate user-provided JSONata expressions. Patches This issue has been addressed in JSONata version 2.2.0 or later, and 1.8.9 or later on v1, via fixes that include https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/782 and https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/793. Applications that evaluate user-provided expressions should update ASAP to prevent exploitation. References https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/releases/tag/v2.2.0 https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/releases/tag/v1.8.9 Credit Thank you to Doruk Tan Öztürk for disclosing this issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-52746 JSONata is a JSON query and transformation language. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References