CVE-2022-36313

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Jul 21, 2022
Updated: Oct 7, 2026
Reserved: Jul 20, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the file-type package before 16.5.4 and 17.x before 17.1.3 for Node.js. A malformed MKV file could cause the file type detector to get caught in an infinite loop. This would make the application become unresponsive and could be used to cause a DoS attack.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type
https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v17.1.3
https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v16.5.4
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0005/

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