CVE-2026-71429

Summary

stream-json is a micro-library of stream components for processing JSON and JSONC with a minimal memory footprint. Prior to 3.5.0, the path filters pick, ignore, filter, and replace in src/core/filters/filter-base.js recompute the full path string from the nesting stack for every checkable token. Because the stack length equals the current nesting depth and a checkable token is emitted at every level, a depth D document costs O(D²) rather than O(D) to process. The issue is triggered by nesting depth rather than byte volume, including the documented pick({filter: 'data'}) traversal-until-match path, so an application that sends untrusted JSON through a string or RegExp filter can block the Node.js event loop and cause denial of service with a small deeply nested document. The streamArray, streamObject, and streamValues streamers are not affected because they use the constant-time asm.depth getter. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.0.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-407: CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

References

• https://github.com/uhop/stream-json/security/advisories/GHSA-528h-pc64-c93x
• https://github.com/uhop/stream-json/commit/a869fb98aaef9225556f49901a8f55954ff856e6

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