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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-2708

NIXPKGS-2026-2708
published 21 hours ago
Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS
Permalink CVE-2026-59168
6.2 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
updated 21 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion
  • @LeSuisse accepted
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub
Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS

Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.11.1, parsing/json/json_reader.go decodeValue, decodeObject, and decodeArray, and parsing/xml/reader.go parseElement, recurse once per input nesting level without a depth guard. Deeply nested attacker-controlled JSON or XML supplied through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data), the command-line interface, or the parse selector function can exhaust the Go goroutine stack and raise an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process. The XML input-size limit does not prevent depth exhaustion, and defer or recover cannot intercept the failure. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1.

Affected products

dasel
  • ==>= 3.0.0, < 3.11.1

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.dasel

Query and update data structures from the command line

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 3.8.1

Package maintainers

Needs a backport