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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-114141 EUVD-2026-107552GHSA-4qx8-w7c3-pj3p

toml-node: Quadratic-complexity DoS via many array-of-tables headers in toml.parse()

Published Oct 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

toml-node is a TOML parser for Node.js and the browser. Prior to 5.0.1, the toml.parse() compiler's addTableArray() function in lib/compiler.js rescans the complete assignedPaths and valueAssignments bookkeeping sets for every array-of-tables header. Distinct [[name]] paths are not pruned, so a document with many such headers causes quadratic synchronous work and can block the Node.js event loop, denying service to other operations in the process. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
BinaryMuse toml-node < 5.0.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm toml < 5.0.1 5.0.1 GHSA-4qx8-w7c3-pj3p

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