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GHSA-29G2-3RMR-QM68

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-07 16:50 – Updated: 2026-08-07 16:50

Summary

SvelteKit: ReDoS (O(n^2)) in content negotiation — unauthenticated DoS via the Accept header

Details

Impact

SvelteKit is vulnerable to remote CPU-exhaustion DoS attacks via specifically-crafted Accept headers. The impact is mitigated by default header length limits on most platforms, but in the case of raised or absent limits a denial of service is possible.

Patches

The vulnerability is patched in @sveltejs/kit version 2.70.2.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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  "modified": "2026-08-07T16:50:02Z",
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CVE-2026-66062 (GCVE-0-2026-66062)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-07 16:49 – Updated: 2026-08-07 21:02

Title

SvelteKit: ReDoS (O(n^2)) in content negotiation — unauthenticated DoS via the Accept header

Summary

SvelteKit is a framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte. Prior to 2.70.2, the content negotiation header parser used by SvelteKit's request handling (for headers such as Accept) uses a regular expression vulnerable to quadratic backtracking, so a maliciously crafted header value can cause excessive CPU consumption and degrade or deny service. Version 2.70.2 fixes the issue.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-07 20:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/security/advisori…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/commit/82712fc02c…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/releases/tag/@sve…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
sveltejs	kit	Affected: < 2.70.2

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