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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2026-107389 EUVD-2026-95238GHSA-5gfj-9q3v-qfp3

music-metadata: EBML parser trusts element lengths, allowing memory exhaustion or process abort

Published Oct 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.16.0, the Matroska and WebM EBML parser decodes an attacker-controlled VINT element length and uses it for string-token or Uint8Array allocation before confirming that the leaf fits within its parent or available input. Crafted WebM, MKV, or MKA inputs can cause disproportionate allocations, out-of-memory denial of service, or, for a demonstrated parseFile path on Node.js 26.7.0, an uncatchable V8 fatal abort. The exact failure mode depends on the tokenizer, parser API, and runtime, but the affected leaf-length validation flaw is shared and has availability impact only. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Borewit music-metadata < 11.16.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm music-metadata < 11.16.0 11.16.0 GHSA-5gfj-9q3v-qfp3

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