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Github GHSA |
GHSA-5v7r-6r5c-r473 | file-type affected by infinite loop in ASF parser on malformed input with zero-size sub-header |
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:sindresorhus:file-type:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:15:00 +0000
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ssvc
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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:15:00 +0000
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threat_severity
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threat_severity
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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000
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Sindresorhus
Sindresorhus file-type |
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| Vendors & Products |
Sindresorhus
Sindresorhus file-type |
Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:15:00 +0000
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| Description | file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. Prior to 21.3.1, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the ASF (WMV/WMA) file type detection parser. When parsing a crafted input where an ASF sub-header has a size field of zero, the parser enters an infinite loop. The payload value becomes negative (-24), causing tokenizer.ignore(payload) to move the read position backwards, so the same sub-header is read repeatedly forever. Any application that uses file-type to detect the type of untrusted/attacker-controlled input is affected. An attacker can stall the Node.js event loop with a 55-byte payload. Fixed in version 21.3.1. | |
| Title | file-type affected by infinite loop in ASF parser on malformed input with zero-size sub-header | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-835 | |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-11T16:00:14.754Z
Reserved: 2026-03-09T16:33:42.913Z
Link: CVE-2026-31808
Updated: 2026-03-11T15:53:39.314Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-03-10T21:16:50.173
Modified: 2026-03-18T19:48:13.733
Link: CVE-2026-31808
OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-04-16T09:30:06Z
Github GHSA