HighGHSA-f9cm-p3w6-xvr3CVE-2014-10064

Denial-of-Service Extended Event Loop Blocking in qs

Published 9 Oct 2018 · Updated 8 Nov 2023

Affected package

qsnpm
Affected
<1.0.0
Fixed in
1.0.0
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install qs@1.0.0

Details

Versions prior to 1.0.0 of qs are affected by a denial of service vulnerability that results from excessive recursion in parsing a deeply nested JSON string.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.0.0 or later

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References

Advisory data from OSV.dev (opens OSV.dev in a new tab), refreshed daily.