js-bson vulnerable to REDoS

Description

The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

Recommendation

Update the bson package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 0.5.0, < 1.0.5
• Patched version(s): 1.0.5

References

• GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4
• snyk.io
• CVE-2018-13863
• CWE-185
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Code Injection in node-rules - CVE-2020-7609
• Command Injection in lodash - CVE-2021-23337
• gifplayer XSS vulnerability - CVE-2025-31128
• Deserialization of Untrusted Data in bson - CVE-2020-7610

Tags:

npm

bson