Denial-of-Service Extended Event Loop Blocking in qs

Description

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 the qs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.0.0
• Patched version(s): 1.0.0

References

• GHSA-f9cm-p3w6-xvr3
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2014-10064
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• Prototype Pollution in lodash (GHSA-p6mc-m468-83gw) 2 - CVE-2020-8203
• IPX Allows Path Traversal via Prefix Matching Bypass - CVE-2025-54387

Tags:

npm

qs