High
Security advisory
jQuery 3.0.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to removing a logic that lowercased attribute names. Any attribute getter using a mixed-cased name for boolean attributes goes into an infinite recursion, exceeding the stack call limit.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10707
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
jQuery 3.0.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to removing a logic that lowercased attribute names. Any attribute getter using a mixed-cased name for boolean attributes goes into an infinite recursion, exceeding the stack call limit.
osv:CVE-2016-10707
Complete source record
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