CVE-2026-93690

NameCVE-2026-93690
Descriptionuri-js through 4.4.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the removeDotSegments function that loops infinitely when a path segment begins with Unicode line or paragraph separators. Attackers can trigger this by calling removeDotSegments directly or through normalize/resolve functions with IRI handling enabled, causing the Node.js event loop to block indefinitely until heap exhaustion.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1148402

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
node-uri-js (PTS)bookworm, trixie4.4.0+dfsg-8vulnerable
forky, sid4.4.0+dfsg-10vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
node-uri-jssource(unstable)(unfixed)1148402

Notes

[trixie] - node-uri-js <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - node-uri-js <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/garycourt/uri-js/issues/105

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