CVE-2025-23166

The C++ method SignTraits::DeriveBits may incorrectly call ThrowException based on user-supplied inputs when executing in a background thread, crashing the Node.js process. Such cryptographic operations are commonly applied to untrusted inputs. Thus, this mechanism potentially allows an adversary...

CVE-2025-23166

The CVE-2025-23166 issue affects Node.js and stems from SignTraits::DeriveBits() potentially calling ThrowException() with user-controlled inputs when run in a background thread, leading to a crash of the Node.js runtime. Public advisories in the Connected documents confirm affected packages (e.g...

CVE-2025-23166

The C++ method SignTraits::DeriveBits may incorrectly call ThrowException based on user-supplied inputs when executing in a background thread, crashing the Node.js process. Such cryptographic operations are commonly applied to untrusted inputs. Thus, this mechanism potentially allows an adversary...

CVE-2021-39157

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in detect-character-encoding v0.7.0. No workaround are available and all...

CVE-2021-39131

ced detects character encoding using Google’s compactencdet library. In ced v0.1.0, passing data types other than Buffer causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in ced v1.0.0. As a workaround, before passing an argument to ced, verify it’s a Buffer using Buffer.isBuffero...

Medium: nodejs

Issue Overview: node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js...

Node.js crash over administrative interface

An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions vulnerability CWE-703 in FortiOS version 7.4.1 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform a temporary denial of service attack on the administrative interface via crafted HTTP requests...

CVE-2023-32695 Insufficient validation when decoding a Socket.IO packet

socket.io parser is a socket.io encoder and decoder written in JavaScript complying with version 5 of socket.io-protocol. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. A patch has been released in version 4.2.3...

CVE-2021-39131

ced detects character encoding using Google’s compactencdet library. In ced v0.1.0, passing data types other than Buffer causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in ced v1.0.0. As a workaround, before passing an argument to ced, verify it’s a Buffer using Buffer.isBuffero...

Denial of Service (DoS)

Overview xlsx is a Parser and writer for various spreadsheet formats. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. An attacker who can send a malicious excel file parsed by this library can crash the Node.JS process. Note: xlsx package after version 0.18.5 is...