CVE-2026-59168

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59168
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-59168.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-59168
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (2)
DEBIAN (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2026-09-21T16:55:07Z
Modified
2026-10-28T02:30:44Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-674"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/59xxx/CVE-2026-59168.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tomwright/dasel

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tomwright/dasel
Events
Introduced
648f83baf070d9e00db8ff312febef857ec090a3
Fixed
5d609b8982d4f23a12f40e5d47009ba2a1bda218
Fixed
4c91d0d02dc59ce8404709b1bfed7a6fabe62f68
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "3.11.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "4c91d0d02dc59ce8404709b1bfed7a6fabe62f68"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag": "v3.11.1",
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "5d609b8982d4f23a12f40e5d47009ba2a1bda218"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.3
v3.1.4
v3.10.0
v3.10.1
v3.11.0
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.2.3
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2
v3.4.0
v3.4.1
v3.5.0
v3.6.0
v3.7.0
v3.8.0
v3.8.1
v3.9.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-59168.json"