FKIE_CVE-2026-59168

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-21 17:17 - Updated: 2026-09-24 21:25
Severity
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/TomWright/dasel/commit/4c91d0d02dc59ce8404709b1bfed7a6fabe62f68
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/tag/v3.11.1
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/TomWright/dasel/security/advisories/GHSA-cqxr-jxr2-85pq
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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          "vendor": "TomWright",
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      "value": "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."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-59168",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-24T21:25:27.050",
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          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
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          "baseScore": 6.2,
          "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
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          "role": "CISA Coordinator",
          "timestamp": "2026-09-21T19:40:35.532900Z",
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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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