js-yaml is a JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. From 5.0.0 before 5.2.0, when merge keys are enabled, js-yaml can spend quadratic CPU time parsing a document whose size grows only linearly when a chain of mappings uses merge keys where each mapping merges the previous one. This issue is fixed in version 5.2.0.
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| Description | js-yaml is a JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. From 5.0.0 before 5.2.0, when merge keys are enabled, js-yaml can spend quadratic CPU time parsing a document whose size grows only linearly when a chain of mappings uses merge keys where each mapping merges the previous one. This issue is fixed in version 5.2.0. | |
| Title | js-yaml: YAML merge-key chains can force quadratic CPU consumption | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-08T15:18:19.422Z
Reserved: 2026-07-07T15:41:53.607Z
Link: CVE-2026-59868
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