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figlet is vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded loop when whitespaceBreak is used with a small width

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### 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.

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GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7

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Source reference: osv:GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7

figlet

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Fixed versions
1.11.3

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        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0"
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            "fixed": "1.11.3"
          }
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    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "figlet",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/figlet",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7/GHSA-62ch-8vmq-8xm7.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-96780

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high

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