GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-j22f-vq7h-c4qm devalue: `stringify`/`uneval` serialize shared memory
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-92708
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- devalue
- 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, CWE-226
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-01
Affected packages
• npm devalue: >= 5.1.0, < 5.9.3 → fixed in 5.9.3
Description
Impact
`stringify` and `uneval` serialize a typed array by emitting its backing `ArrayBuffer`, not just the view. In the case of a Node `Buffer` object, the backing buffer is a process-wide shared pool, meaning unrelated memory can be serialized into a response that is then sent to the client. For a Node `Buffer` the backing store is Node's process-wide shared pool, so serializing a small `Buffer` copies up to 64 KB of unrelated process memory — including bytes from other in-flight requests — into the output. In an SSR framework (SvelteKit, Nuxt) a public page whose `load()` returns a 2-byte `Buffer`, or a small file read with `readFileSync`, ships another user's request body / `Authorization` header in its HTML. Unauthenticated, silent, ~43,000× amplification.
This is serialization-side, so the `parse`/`unflatten` prototype-pollution and DoS guards do not apply — it fires on every SSR render, not only when parsing untrusted input.
Workarounds
Convert Node `Buffer` objects to `Uint8Array`:
```diff
payload = {
• buffer
+ buffer: new Uint8Array(buffer)
}
```
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-92708 Svelte devalue is a JavaScript library that serializes values into strings when JSON.stringify isn't sufficient for the job. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/sveltejs/devalue/security/advisories/GHSA-j22f-vq7h-c4qm web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92708 advisory
- https://github.com/sveltejs/devalue/commit/46dc877b3570dafb1cd3291b9bb48cecef8f7266 web
- https://github.com/sveltejs/devalue package
- https://github.com/sveltejs/devalue/releases/tag/v5.9.3 web