Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.11.1, parsing/json/json_reader.go decodeValue, decodeObject, and decodeArray, and parsing/xml/reader.go parseElement, recurse once per input nesting level without a depth guard. Deeply nested attacker-controlled JSON or XML supplied through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data), the command-line interface, or the parse selector function can exhaust the Go goroutine stack and raise an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process. The XML input-size limit does not prevent depth exhaustion, and defer or recover cannot intercept the failure. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1.
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| Description | Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.11.1, parsing/json/json_reader.go decodeValue, decodeObject, and decodeArray, and parsing/xml/reader.go parseElement, recurse once per input nesting level without a depth guard. Deeply nested attacker-controlled JSON or XML supplied through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data), the command-line interface, or the parse selector function can exhaust the Go goroutine stack and raise an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process. The XML input-size limit does not prevent depth exhaustion, and defer or recover cannot intercept the failure. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1. | |
| Title | Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-09-21T20:45:17.805Z
Reserved: 2026-07-02T16:50:27.887Z
Link: CVE-2026-59168
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-21T17:17:36.500
Modified: 2026-09-21T17:17:36.500
Link: CVE-2026-59168
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Updated: 2026-09-21T19:30:15Z
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