GHSA-4qv8-2p9j-2685

undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded memory in the EventSource parser

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-109924
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

### Impact undici's `EventSource` client can be driven to exhaust process memory by a malicious or compromised Server-Sent Events peer. By sending millions of tiny completed `data:` fields with no blank event separator, or a single unfinished line split across many chunks, the parser retains a growing amount of per-field and per-chunk state. The byte-based `maxEventSize` and `maxResponseSize` limits do not bound that retained state, and `maxResponseSize` is enforced on the compressed body before decompression, so a small compressed response can expand into enough retained memory to terminate the process. The application only needs to maintain an `EventSource` connection to an untrusted peer, which controls only the response. Availability is the only impact. ### Patches Upgrade to `6.29.1`, `7.30.1`, or `8.12.2`, which bound the retained EventSource parser state (the number of `data` fields and buffered chunks, the unfinished-line length, and per-field byte totals) independently of the byte limits. ### Workarounds None.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · undiciintroduced 6.5.0, fixed 6.29.1
npm · undiciintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.30.1
npm · undiciintroduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.12.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database