Description
A vulnerability has been found in connorskees grass up to 0.13.4. The impacted element is the function grass_compiler::selector::extend/grass_compiler::evaluate::visitor. The manipulation leads to denial of service. The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The project maintainer explains: "DoS vulnerabilities are generally fine in Sass compilers -- they are trivially possible with recursive functions, infinite loops, nested mixins, etc. The description here is wrong. Compile time is not expected to be linear relative to the input, and the @extend algorithm is definitionally exponential."
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| connorskees | grass | 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 0.13.3, 0.13.4 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | sass-grass | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | sass-grass | No fix yet | — |
References
- VDB-376164 | connorskees grass visitor denial of service vdb-entry technical-description
- VDB-376164 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature permissions-required
- CVE-2026-14651 | CVE Analysis and Report third-party-advisory
- Submit #846667 | grass 0.13.4 Asymmetric Resource Consumption third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/connorskees/grass/issues/117 exploit issue-tracking
- https://github.com/connorskees/grass/ product