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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2025-59364

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The express-xss-sanitizer (aka Express XSS Sanitizer) package versions through 2.0.0 for Node.js has an unbounded recursion depth in "sanitize()" in "lib/sanitize.js" for a JSON request body.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published