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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-74788 EUVD-2026-59954GHSA-3qxv-x8gq-wgffGHSA-v66j-x4hw-fv9g

Scriban before 7.0.0 Denial of Service via string.pad_left/pad_right

Published Aug 16, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Scriban before 7.0.0 (affected versions <= 6.6.0) contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability in the string.pad_left and string.pad_right template functions, which perform no validation on the width parameter before delegating to .NET's String.PadLeft/PadRight. When an application exposes Scriban to untrusted template input, an attacker can supply an arbitrarily large width value (e.g., 500,000,000) to trigger ~1GB memory allocations in a single call, resulting in OutOfMemoryException and denial of service. The TemplateContext.LimitToString limit does not prevent this because it is only enforced after the string has been fully allocated.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
scriban scriban < 7.0.0 7.0.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet Scriban < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GHSA-v66j-x4hw-fv9g
NuGet Scriban.Signed < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GHSA-v66j-x4hw-fv9g

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