vulnerability · Fri 02 Oct 2026 · 22:39 UTC
GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7: figlet is vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded loop when whitespaceBreak is used with a small width
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A denial-of-service (infinite loop) can occur in text() / textSync() when both: - whitespaceBreak: true is set, and - width is set smaller than the rendered width of a single FIGlet character. Under these conditions breakWord() could never find a valid break point, so the word-wrapping loop in generateFigTextLines() never terminated. This pins a CPU core and grows memory without bound, blocking the Node.js event loop. ### Severity Low or Medium. …
Signals
as the pipeline stamped them- High
- High-risk vulnerability
CVE
KEV from CISA · EPSS from FIRST| Id | KEV | EPSS | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-96780 | — | 0.40% | NVD ↗ |
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