CVE-2026-59168: Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS
TomWright · dasel
Affected: TomWright dasel · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 2% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- TomWright · dasel>= 3.0.0, < 3.11.1
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- TomWright
- Published
- September 2026
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