CVE-2026-59168

Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.11.1, parsing/json/json_reader.go decodeValue, decodeObject, and decodeArray, and parsing/xml/reader.go parseElement, recurse once per input nesting level without a depth guard. Deeply nested attacker-controlled JSON or XML supplied through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data), the command-line interface, or the parse selector function can exhaust the Go goroutine stack and raise an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process. The XML input-size limit does not prevent depth exhaustion, and defer or recover cannot intercept the failure. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1.

CVSS v3 6.2 MEDIUM

6.2^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.5 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/commit/4c91d0d02dc59ce8404709b1bfed7a6fabe62f68
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/tag/v3.11.1
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/security/advisories/GHSA-cqxr-jxr2-85pq

Configurations

No configuration.

History

21 Sep 2026, 17:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-21 17:17

Updated : 2026-09-24 21:25

NVD link : CVE-2026-59168

Mitre link : CVE-2026-59168

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-59168

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

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