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OESA-2026-1578 (CVE-2026-27601)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-03-15 11:10 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:10 – Source website

Summary

nodejs-underscore security update

Details

Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides support for the usual functional suspects (each, map, reduce, filter...) without extending any core JavaScript objects.

Security Fix(es):

Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript. Prior to version 1.13.8, the _.flatten and _.isEqual functions use recursion without a depth limit. Under very specific conditions, an attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by triggering a stack overflow. Exploitation requires all of the following: untrusted input must be used to create a deeply recursive data structure (e.g., via JSON.parse with no enforced depth limit), and this structure must be passed to _.flatten or _.isEqual. For _.flatten, the attacker must be able to prepare a data structure consisting solely of arrays at all levels, and no finite depth limit must be passed as the second argument to _.flatten. For _.isEqual, there must exist a code path where two distinct but structurally equivalent data structures, submitted by the same remote client, are compared using _.isEqual. Additionally, exceptions resulting from the stack overflow must not be caught. This vulnerability is fixed in version 1.13.8.(CVE-2026-27601)

Severity

8.2 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27601	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:10:35Z",
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  ]
}

CVE-2026-27601 (GCVE-0-2026-27601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-03 22:38 – Updated: 2026-03-04 16:44

Title

Underscore.js has unlimited recursion in _.flatten and _.isEqual, potential for DoS attack

Summary

Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript. Prior to 1.13.8, the _.flatten and _.isEqual functions use recursion without a depth limit. Under very specific conditions, detailed below, an attacker could exploit this in a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by triggering a stack overflow. Untrusted input must be used to create a recursive datastructure, for example using JSON.parse, with no enforced depth limit. The datastructure thus created must be passed to _.flatten or _.isEqual. In the case of _.flatten, the vulnerability can only be exploited if it is possible for a remote client to prepare a datastructure that consists of arrays at all levels AND if no finite depth limit is passed as the second argument to _.flatten. In the case of _.isEqual, the vulnerability can only be exploited if there exists a code path in which two distinct datastructures that were submitted by the same remote client are compared using _.isEqual. For example, if a client submits data that are stored in a database, and the same client can later submit another datastructure that is then compared to the data that were saved in the database previously, OR if a client submits a single request, but its data are parsed twice, creating two non-identical but equivalent datastructures that are then compared. Exceptions originating from the call to _.flatten or _.isEqual, as a result of a stack overflow, are not being caught. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.8.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-04 16:44 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/security/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/commit/41…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/commit/a6…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
jashkenas	underscore	Affected: < 1.13.8

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