CVE-2026-49293
highjs-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript, fully compliant with the TOML 1.0.0 Spec.
Vendor / product: Sunnyadn — js-toml
js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript, fully compliant with the TOML 1.0.0 Spec. Versions up to and including 1.1.1 parse hexadecimal / octal / binary integer literals via a hand-written `parseBigInt` loop that multiplies a `BigInt` accumulator by the radix once per input digit. Each iteration performs a `BigInt * BigInt` operation on an accumulator that grows linearly with the number of digits already consumed, so the whole loop is O(n²) in the literal length. The lexer regex places no upper bound on the literal length, so a single TOML document containing one ~500 kB hex literal pins one CPU core for ~40 seconds on a modern laptop (Apple M-series, Node v22). Memory amplification is bounded but CPU amplification is severe and grows quadratically: doubling the literal length quadruples the work. A caller that invokes `load()` on attacker-controlled TOML (configuration upload endpoints, CI/CD systems ingesting third-party `*.toml`, IDE plugins, build tools) is exposed to a single-request CPU exhaustion DoS. Version 1.1.2 fixes the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/commit/1e45ca56ba12e98508f8aae3e31c4aff7603d711 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/releases/tag/v1.1.2 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3c-266w-4qfq security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3c-266w-4qfq 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

