Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify app that parses untrusted CSS via CSSOM
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DeliverySubmit stylesheet with declaration named 'length'
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ExploitInternal length counter overwritten
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ExecutioncssText serialization allocates excessive memory
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ImpactProcess terminates (DoS)
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A08:2025 - Software or Data Integrity Failures
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service Object attribute protection
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires the host application to (1) pass attacker-controlled CSS into CSSOM's CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty()/stylesheet parsing, and (2) subsequently serialize the parsed declaration via cssText, which is where the oversized allocation occurs. The specific trigger is a CSS declaration using the reserved name 'length', which is not validated and overwrites the internal length counter. Limiting factors: the library is not itself network-exposed, so exploitation is gated on an application feeding it untrusted stylesheet input and then serializing; deployments that only parse trusted/first-party CSS or never call cssText on attacker input are not exposed. Affected versions are CSSOM through 0.5.0. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but conditionally-reachable denial-of-service issue, not a top-tier priority. The vendor CVSS 4.0 vector (8.7, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/VA:H) is a pure-availability score with confidentiality and integrity explicitly zero (VC:N/VI:N), so the '8.7 High' rating derives entirely from process-crash impact - there is no data exposure or code execution. CWE-915 (improper control of a dynamically-determined object attribute) is the correct root cause: an attacker-controlled property name 'length' overwrites the object's internal counter. Critically, the network/unauthenticated framing assumes the host application feeds attacker-supplied CSS through CSSOM and then serializes it via cssText; the library itself is not a network service, so real-world reachability depends on the embedding application. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no published proof-of-concept are present in the input - this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The signals are consistent (single-source, availability-only, no exploitation evidence), so there is no CVSS-vs-EPSS or vector-vs-description conflict to flag; the main caveat is that AV:N presumes untrusted-CSS ingestion that only some deployments actually perform. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An application uses CSSOM to parse CSS supplied by an untrusted party (e.g., user-submitted stylesheets, scraped/remote HTML processed via a DOM emulator) and later serializes the parsed rules back to text. The attacker submits a stylesheet containing a declaration named 'length', which replaces CSSStyleDeclaration's internal length counter and forces a huge memory allocation during cssText serialization, terminating the Node.js process. No proof-of-concept is published in the provided sources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 18, 2026
Denial of service in the CSSOM JavaScript library through 0.5.0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to terminate a parsing process by supplying a stylesheet declaration named 'length', a reserved property name that is not validated and therefore overwrites the internal declaration counter; the corrupted counter then drives an oversized memory allocation when cssText is serialized, crashing the process. Exploitation is conditional rather than automatic: the host application must feed attacker-controlled CSS into CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty() or stylesheet parsing and must later serialize that declaration via cssText, so deployments that only parse trusted first-party CSS, or that never serialize untrusted input, are not exposed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the provided CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 (assessed as CVSS 3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) reflects a high availability-only impact with no confidentiality or integrity effect, and the library itself is not network-exposed.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis: CSSOM has no fixed version published, and the issue remains tracked in the upstream repository at https://github.com/NV/CSSOM/issues/119, with the vulnerable logic visible at https://github.com/NV/CSSOM/blob/00ec21868e12422581c81779135c2f1648441204/lib/CSSStyleDeclaration.js#L41-L56, so teams should monitor that issue and the VulnCheck advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cssom-through-0.5.0-denial-of-service-via-length-property) for a 0.5.1 or later release and upgrade as soon as one ships. Until then, apply compensating controls targeted at the two required conditions: first, reject or strip reserved and structural property names ('length', 'cssText', 'parentRule', and purely numeric index keys) from any externally supplied stylesheet before it reaches setProperty() or the parser, accepting that naive allow-list filtering may drop legitimate but unusual CSS; second, avoid calling cssText on declarations derived from untrusted input and instead serialize from your own trusted data model, which removes the memory-amplification sink entirely at the cost of a small amount of re-implementation. Where untrusted stylesheet processing is unavoidable, run the parsing/serialization in an isolated worker, child process, or container with a hard memory cap and execution timeout so the oversized allocation kills only the sandbox rather than the host process, and cap the number of declarations accepted per stylesheet; if neither parsing nor serialization of third-party CSS is a real business requirement, the simplest mitigation is to stop passing untrusted CSS to CSSOM at all. Note that these are workarounds, not fixes, and no exact patched version should be assumed until the upstream maintainer publishes one.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CSSOM is a pure JavaScript implementation of the CSS Object Model, widely used directly and as a dependency of DOM emulation stacks (for example jsdom-style tooling) to parse stylesheets into CSSStyleDeclaration objects. The flaw is rooted in CWE-915 (Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes): setProperty() as implemented in lib/CSSStyleDeclaration.js (referenced lines 41-56) accepts an arbitrary caller-supplied property name without rejecting reserved internal names, so a declaration named 'length' is written over the counter that is normally computed from the number of stored declarations. Because cssText is a getter whose serialization loop (referenced lines 112-124) is driven by that same counter, the overwritten value propagates into an unbounded allocation during serialization, exhausting memory and terminating the Node.js process. Conceptually this is a mass-assignment-style collision between attacker-controlled keys and the object's own dynamically determined attributes, where a name that should be read-only state is treated as ordinary writable data. The affected CPE cpe:2.3:a:nv:cssom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers the package across its released versions up to and including 0.5.0; the fix therefore has to either blocklist reserved identifiers (length, cssText, parentRule, and numeric index keys) or store declarations in a private structure that cannot be addressed by user-supplied property names.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Pure availability impact (process crash) with no confidentiality or integrity effect; network/unauthenticated because untrusted CSS commonly reaches the parser, though reachability is application-dependent.
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
CSSOM through 0.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty() that fails to validate reserved property names. Attackers can supply a stylesheet with a declaration named length to replace the internal counter and trigger excessive memory allocation during cssText serialization, causing process termination.
Executive ViewAI
The CSSOM JavaScript library (all versions through 0.5.0) contains a denial-of-service flaw that can crash processes which parse attacker-supplied CSS, potentially taking down customer-facing services that accept stylesheets, uploads, or templated content from external parties. Exposure is conditional: only applications that pass untrusted CSS into stylesheet parsing or CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty() and later serialize declarations via cssText are at risk, while systems handling only trusted first-party CSS are unaffected. Because no vendor patch is available, leadership should treat this as an engineering-mitigation effort owned by the application teams running the affected dependency rather than a routine patch cycle.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: reject or sanitize stylesheet declarations named 'length' before parsing; avoid serializing untrusted declarations via cssText; process untrusted CSS in isolated, memory-capped worker processes with automatic restart; enforce stylesheet size and request-rate limits; and monitor parser processes for crash-restart patterns until a maintained replacement or fixed release is deployed.
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| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Client Tools 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.3 | Affected |
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.2 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Not-Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for NVIDIA 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for NVIDIA 16.1 | Not-Affected |
| SUSE Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 | Affected |
| ses/7.1/ceph/prometheus-server ses/7/ceph/prometheus-server suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/monitoring-prometheus | Affected |
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