CVE-2026-74788 PUBLISHED

Scriban before 7.0.0 Denial of Service via string.pad_left/pad_right

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 16.08.2026 Published: 16.08.2026 Updated: 16.08.2026

Scriban before 7.0.0 (affected versions <= 6.6.0) contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability in the string.pad_left and string.pad_right template functions, which perform no validation on the width parameter before delegating to .NET's String.PadLeft/PadRight. When an application exposes Scriban to untrusted template input, an attacker can supply an arbitrarily large width value (e.g., 500,000,000) to trigger ~1GB memory allocations in a single call, resulting in OutOfMemoryException and denial of service. The TemplateContext.LimitToString limit does not prevent this because it is only enforced after the string has been fully allocated.

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 scriban
Product scriban
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 7.0.0 (excl.)
  • Version 7.0.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • offset reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE