CVE-2026-84375

js-yaml is a JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. From 3.0.0 until 3.15.2 and 4.3.2, maxTotalMergeKeys in lib/js-yaml/loader.js and lib/loader.js does not count empty mapping sources while processing the merge key <<. An attacker can alias a large sequence of empty mappings into many merge targets, causing O(N * K) processing while totalMergeKeys remains unchanged and the configured resource limit is never reached. A relatively small YAML document can therefore cause prolonged CPU consumption in applications that parse untrusted YAML, and merge processing is enabled by default on these release lines. This issue is fixed in versions 3.15.2 and 4.3.2.

• CWE-400
• CWE-407

• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/commit/3485bc06ff8a0251505f44a00414d90df2466639
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/commit/6a8e05f9a485188ed730ac81e81ae221352ef480
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/commit/d90b6612a5a84385bdcb556c44578eac76dc0f6b
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/pull/797
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/releases/tag/3.15.2
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/releases/tag/4.3.2
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/security/advisories/GHSA-2883-xcg3-v3hh

Published

Sep 1, 2026

Last Modified

Sep 9, 2026

Status

Deferred

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