GitHub Advisoryadvisory · NuGet

GHSA-p6q4-fgr8-vx4p Scriban has a Stack Overflow via Nested Array Initializers That Bypass the ExpressionDepthLimit Fix

HIGH Published 2026-03-24 Modified 2026-07-06 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
NuGet
Packages
Scriban, Scriban.Signed
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-674
Reviewed
2026-03-24

Affected packages

• NuGet Scriban: < 7.0.0 → fixed in 7.0.0 • NuGet Scriban.Signed: < 7.0.0 → fixed in 7.0.0

Description

Summary StackOverflowException via nested array initializers bypasses ExpressionDepthLimit fix (GHSA-wgh7-7m3c-fx25) Details The recent fix for GHSA-wgh7-7m3c-fx25 (uncontrolled recursion in parser) added `ExpressionDepthLimit` defaulting to 250. However, deeply nested array initializers (`[[[[...`) recurse through `ParseArrayInitializer` → `ParseExpression` → `ParseArrayInitializer`, which is a different recursion path not covered by the expression depth counter. This causes a `StackOverflowException` on current main (commit b5ac4bf - "Add limits for default safety"). PoC ``` using Scriban; // ExpressionDepthLimit (default 250) does NOT prevent this crash string nested = "{{ " + new string('[', 5000) + "1" + new string(']', 5000) + " }}"; Template.Parse(nested); // StackOverflowException - process terminates ``` Impact Same as GHSA-wgh7-7m3c-fx25: High severity. StackOverflowException cannot be caught with try/catch in .NET - the process terminates immediately. Any application calling Template.Parse with untrusted input is vulnerable, even with the new default ExpressionDepthLimit enabled.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

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