GHSA-vcc3-ghjq-m6frMedium
decode-uri-component: Denial of service via exponential decoding of malformed percent-encoded input
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
An attacker who can supply input to decodeUriComponent() (directly or via a dependency that uses this package on URL/query/path data) can cause excessive CPU usage and application unresponsiveness. This is an availability issue; there is no known memory corruption, data disclosure, or remote code execution impact.
Patches
Upgrade to [email protected].
Workarounds
Limit the size of the input.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/decode-uri-component:<= 0.4.2
🔗 References (7)
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/security/advisories/GHSA-vcc3-ghjq-m6fr
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45822
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/commit/fa479dafeede7bedf04e5c89aa78f2a78c664005
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/blob/00662938dc7c6241547ae8abce7785cc13ffd3f6/index.js
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/releases/tag/v0.5.0
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/decode-uri-component
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vcc3-ghjq-m6fr