CVE-2026-34166
LiquidJS has a Memory Limit Bypass via Quadratic Amplification in `replace` Filter
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- GitHub_M
Description
LiquidJS is a Shopify / GitHub Pages compatible template engine in pure JavaScript. Prior to 10.25.3, the replace filter in LiquidJS incorrectly accounts for memory usage when the memoryLimit option is enabled. It charges str.length + pattern.length + replacement.length bytes to the memory limiter, but the actual output from str.split(pattern).join(replacement) can be quadratically larger when the pattern occurs many times in the input string. This allows an attacker who controls template content to bypass the memoryLimit DoS protection with approximately 2,500x amplification, potentially causing out-of-memory conditions. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.25.3.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmliquidjsGHSA-mmg9-6m6j-jqqx (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/security/advisories/GHSA-mmg9-6m6j-jqqx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/abc058be0f33d6372cd2216f4945183167abeb25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.25.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mmg9-6m6j-jqqx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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