GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-vghf-hv5q-vc2g Validator is Vulnerable to Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements

HIGH Published 2025-11-27 Modified 2026-01-31 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-12758
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
validator
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-172, CWE-792
Reviewed
2025-12-02

Affected packages

• npm validator: < 13.15.22 → fixed in 13.15.22

Description

Versions of the package validator before 13.15.22 are vulnerable to Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements in the isLength() function that does not take into account Unicode variation selectors (\uFE0F, \uFE0E) appearing in a sequence which lead to improper string length calculation. This can lead to an application using isLength for input validation accepting strings significantly longer than intended, resulting in issues like data truncation in databases, buffer overflows in other system components, or denial-of-service.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-12758 Versions of the package validator before 13.15.22 are vulnerable to Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements in… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-172 Improper Encoding or Decoding of Data weakness
  • CWE-792 Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements weakness

References