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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-10707

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.

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CVE-2016-10707
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31 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-10707

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jan 2018, 23:29 UTC

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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  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "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.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
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        }
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:25.224012366Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20160529",
        "https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3133",
        "https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/3134"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2018-01-18T23:29:00.4+00:00"
}