AIKIDO-2026-158991
toml is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion
75
High Risk
This Affects:
tomlTL;DR
The TOML parser previously used recursive-descent parsing where deeply nested arrays/inline tables could overflow the JavaScript call stack, crashing the process with an uncatchable RangeError (DoS). Version 4.2.0 fixes this by adding a configurable nesting-depth bound (default 500 via toml.parse(input, { maxDepth })) enforced in the parser grammar/logic; inputs exceeding the limit now fail with a normal parse error instead of a runtime stack overflow.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
toml is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion in versions 0.0.1 - 4.1.2.
How to fix this
Upgrade the toml library to the patch version.
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