GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7: Npm/figlet vulnerability

Published Oct 2, 2026
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Updated

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

1 affected componentFixes available
npm/figlet<1.11.3
1.11.3

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade npm/figlet to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.11.3
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade figlet to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.11.3
  3. Configuration

    Leave whitespaceBreak disabled when using text() or textSync().

    figlet whitespaceBreak = false
  4. Compensating control

    Do not expose the width option to untrusted input.

Event History

Oct 2, 2026
Advisory Published
via GitHub·10:39 PM
Data Sourced
via GitHub·10:39 PM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software

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