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fix(deps): update dependency smol-toml to v1.3.1 [security] #11733

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Adoption Passing Confidence
smol-toml 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1 age adoption passing confidence

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GHSA-pqhp-25j4-6hq9

Summary

An attacker can send a maliciously crafted TOML to cause the parser to crash because of a stack overflow caused by a deeply nested inline structure. A similar problem occurs when attempting to stringify deeply nested objects.

The library does not limit the maximum exploration depth while parsing or producing TOML documents, nor does it offer a way to do so.

Proof of concept

require("smol-toml").parse("e=" + "{e=".repeat(9999) + "{}" + "}".repeat(9999))

Impact

Applications which parse arbitrary TOML documents may suffer availability issues if they receive malicious input. If uncaught, the crash may cause the application itself to crash. The impact is deemed minor, as the function is already likely to throw errors on invalid input and therefore to properly handle errors.

Due to the design of most JavaScript runtimes, the uncontrolled recursion does not lead to excessive memory usage and the execution is quickly aborted.

As a reminder, it is strongly advised when working with untrusted user input to expect errors to occur and to appropriately catch them.

Patches

Version 1.3.1 offers a mechanism to limit the exploration depth before halting with a TomlError when parsing, with a default cap of 1000. A same mechanism has been implemented for stringifying objects.

Please note that the parser will still throw an error upon such cases. It is, however, a now-controlled and documented behavior of the library.

Workarounds

Wrap all invocations of parse and stringify in a try/catch block.


Release Notes

squirrelchat/smol-toml (smol-toml)

v1.3.1

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