CVE-2025-59364
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BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-09-14
Last updated on: 2025-09-15
Assigner: MITRE
Description
Description
The express-xss-sanitizer (aka Express XSS Sanitizer) package through 2.0.0 for Node.js has an unbounded recursion depth in sanitize in lib/sanitize.js for a JSON request body.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| express-xss-sanitizer | express-xss-sanitizer | 2.0.1 |
| express-xss-sanitizer | express-xss-sanitizer | 2.0.0 |
| node.js | node.js | * |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-674 | The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
The vulnerability in the express-xss-sanitizer package for Node.js is an unbounded recursion depth in the sanitize function located in lib/sanitize.js when processing a JSON request body. This means the function can recurse indefinitely, potentially causing a crash or denial of service.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition by causing the application to crash or become unresponsive due to unbounded recursion when handling JSON request bodies.
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