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.
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Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | plist.js before 5.0.1 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Binary Parser | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 CWE-776 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2026-11-06T20:51:17.545Z
Reserved: 2026-11-06T20:46:36.937Z
Link: CVE-2026-124078
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-06T21:17:08.567
Modified: 2026-11-06T21:17:08.567
Link: CVE-2026-124078
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