Validator is Vulnerable to Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements

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.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 13.15.22
• Patched version(s): 13.15.22

References

• GHSA-vghf-hv5q-vc2g
• security.snyk.io
• seclists.org
• CVE-2025-12758
• CWE-172
• CWE-792
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• csvjson vulnerable to prototype injection - CVE-2025-57318
• mongosh vulnerable to local privilege escalation - CVE-2025-1756
• Manifest Uses a One-Way Hash without a Salt - CVE-2025-27408
• Vega vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via RegExp.prototype[@@replace] (GHSA-963h-3v39-3pqf) - CVE-2025-27793

Tags:

npm

validator