CVE-2026-48038 (GCVE-0-2026-48038)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-14 19:24
Modified
2026-07-15 13:27
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
joi is a schema description language and data validator for JavaScript. Prior to 17.13.4 and 18.2.1, denial of service is possible via an untrapped exception in services validating user-supplied JSON or object input with recursive link() schemas. When validate() is called without try/catch in a request handler, deeply nested input can trigger an unhandled RangeError and potentially crash the process; lower-impact paths using validateAsync() or try/catch produce a RangeError instead of a structured ValidationError. This issue is fixed in versions 17.13.4 and 18.2.1.
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Vendor Product Version
hapijs joi Version: < 17.13.4
Version: >= 18.0.0, < 18.2.1
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