CVE-2014-5256
Node.js 0.8 before 0.8.28 and 0.10 before 0.10.30 does not consider the possibility of recursive processing that triggers V8 garbage collection in conjunction with a V8 interrupt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via deep JSON objects whose parsing lets this interrupt mask an overflow of the program stack.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-5149)
- Published
- September 5, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-5149 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- nodejs / nodejs
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References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html
- http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61260
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:142
- https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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