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ip-address: Address6 builds a parse diagnostic proportional to the input with no length bound, allowing a single long string to stall or crash the process

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

### Summary `new Address6()` and `Address6.isValid()` place no bound on the length of the string they parse. When the string contains a character that cannot appear in an IPv6 address, the parser builds a diagnostic that wraps every such character in a 34-byte ``, so the work and the memory scale with the input rather than with an address. A 1 MiB string of `!` costs about 110 MB and 70 ms of synchronous work, 8 MiB costs about 800 MB and half a second, 16 MiB throws a `RangeError` in place of the documented `AddressError`, and 32 MiB aborts the Node process. `isValid()` builds the diagnostic and discards it, so a caller that only asks whether a string is valid pays the full price. An application that validates an attacker-supplied string with these methods can be stalled or crashed by a single oversized request. This is a crash on input that should have been rejected cleanly, which SECURITY.md lists as in scope. ### Details `parse()` in `src/ipv6.ts` checks for characters outside `[0-9a-f:/%]` and, on finding any, throws an `AddressError` whose `parseMessage` is the whole input with each offending character wrapped: ```ts const badCharacters = address.match(constants6.RE_BAD_CHARACTERS); if (badCharacters) { throw new AddressError( `Bad character${badCharacters.length > 1 ? 's' : ''} detected in address: ${badCharacters.join('')}`, address.replace(constants6.RE_BAD_CHARACTERS, '$1'), ); } ``` `RE_BAD_CHARACTERS` is `/([^0-9a-f:/%])/gi`. For an input made entirely of punctuat

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GHSA-h3mg-xc3c-68pw

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ip-address

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10.7.1

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    "package": {
      "name": "ip-address",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/ip-address",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-h3mg-xc3c-68pw/GHSA-h3mg-xc3c-68pw.json",
      "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 10.7.0"
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Related CVEs
CVE-2026-101911

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