CVE-2026-31808 PUBLISHED

file-type affected by infinite loop in ASF parser on malformed input with zero-size sub-header

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 10.03.2026 Updated: 10.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor sindresorhus
Product file-type
Versions
  • Version >= 13.0.0, < 21.3.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') CWE