GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7: Npm/figlet vulnerability
Impact A denial-of-service (infinite loop) can occur in text() / textSync() when both: - whitespaceBreak: true is set, and - width is set smaller than the rendered width of a single FIGlet character. Under these conditions breakWord() could never find a valid break point, so the word-wrapping loop in generateFigTextLines() never terminated. This pins a CPU core and grows memory without bound, blocking the Node.js event loop.
Severity Low or Medium. Triggering requires a non-default configuration (whitespaceBreak: true) and an attacker-controlled width value reaching text()/textSync(). This library is typically used with fixed options, where this is not reachable. Applications that pass an untrusted width together with whitespaceBreak on a request path are affected.
Patches Fixed in figlet 1.11.3. breakWord() now always makes forward progress (emitting an over-wide character on its own line), and FIGlet header parsing now rejects invalid values (e.g. zero/negative height).
Workarounds Do not expose width to untrusted input, or leave whitespaceBreak disabled (the default), or upgrade to 1.11.3.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade
npm/figletto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.11.3 - Upgrade
Upgrade
figletto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.11.3 - Configuration
Leave whitespaceBreak disabled when using text() or textSync().
figlet whitespaceBreak = false - Compensating control
Do not expose the width option to untrusted input.