file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. Prior to 21.3.1, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the ASF (WMV/WMA) file type detection parser. When parsing a crafted input where an ASF sub-header has a size field of zero, the parser enters an infinite loop. The payload value becomes negative (-24), causing tokenizer.ignore(payload) to move the read position backwards, so the same sub-header is read repeatedly forever. Any application that uses file-type to detect the type of untrusted/attacker-controlled input is affected. An attacker can stall the Node.js event loop with a 55-byte payload. Fixed in version 21.3.1.
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| Description | file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. Prior to 21.3.1, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the ASF (WMV/WMA) file type detection parser. When parsing a crafted input where an ASF sub-header has a size field of zero, the parser enters an infinite loop. The payload value becomes negative (-24), causing tokenizer.ignore(payload) to move the read position backwards, so the same sub-header is read repeatedly forever. Any application that uses file-type to detect the type of untrusted/attacker-controlled input is affected. An attacker can stall the Node.js event loop with a 55-byte payload. Fixed in version 21.3.1. | |
| Title | file-type affected by infinite loop in ASF parser on malformed input with zero-size sub-header | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-835 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-03-10T21:01:55.466Z
Reserved: 2026-03-09T16:33:42.913Z
Link: CVE-2026-31808
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-10T21:16:50.173
Modified: 2026-03-10T21:16:50.173
Link: CVE-2026-31808
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