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…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 61260 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-5149 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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