Medium
Security advisory
In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENT_AST_OPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as demonstrated by recursive calls involving clone(), cloneChildren(), and copy().
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19838
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENT_AST_OPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as demonstrated by recursive calls involving clone(), cloneChildren(), and copy().
osv:CVE-2018-19838
Complete source record
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