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Local CLI/library processing of attacker-supplied input (AV:L), no auth or interaction needed to trigger the crash (PR:N/UI:N), impact limited to process termination (A:H only).
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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.
AnalysisAI
Deeply nested JSON or XML parsed by Dasel 3.0.0 through 3.11.0 exhausts the Go goroutine stack and triggers an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process, giving attackers a denial-of-service condition against any tool, pipeline, or service that runs dasel on untrusted documents. Exploitation requires the attacker to control the parsed input - via the dasel CLI, the parse selector function, or a program embedding the library through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data) - and the assessed vector is local (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), so realistic risk concentrates on wrappers that feed externally sourced data into dasel. …
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| Exploitation | Requires the ability to supply attacker-controlled input that dasel parses as JSON or XML - through the dasel CLI, the parse selector function, or any program embedding dasel via parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data). … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | This is a genuine but self-limiting denial-of-service issue (CWE-674 uncontrolled recursion), not a code-execution or data-exposure flaw. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
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| Remediation | Upgrade to Dasel 3.11.1, which is the vendor-released fix: it enforces a 10,000-level nesting depth limit in both the JSON reader (decodeValue/decodeObject/decodeArray) and the XML reader (parseElement) and returns ErrJSONMaxDepthExceeded or ErrXMLMaxDepthExceeded instead of crashing - see the release at https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/tag/v3.11.1, the advisory GHSA-cqxr-jxr2-85pq, and commit 4c91d0d02dc59ce8404709b1bfed7a6fabe62f68. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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