CVE-2026-124078 PUBLISHED

plist.js before 5.0.1 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Binary Parser

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.11.2026 Published: 06.11.2026 Updated: 06.11.2026

plist.js (npm package 'plist') before 5.0.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the binary property-list parser (parseBinary) that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash a Node.js process by exploiting unmemoized recursive resolution of shared object references for arrays and dictionaries. Attackers can craft a small binary plist (under 200 bytes) containing chained self-referencing object indices to trigger exponential (2^N) resolution calls and memory growth, causing an unrecoverable out-of-memory crash and denial of service.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor TooTallNate
Product plist.js
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.0.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Muhammadyusuf Dilmurodov (agrresore) finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') CWE
  • Uncontrolled Recursion CWE