CVE-2026-105219
HIGHCVSS 7.5Description
Mammoth.js 1.3.0 before 1.12.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the style map tokeniser in lib/styles/parser/tokeniser.js due to overlapping regex alternatives. Attackers can supply a crafted .docx with an unterminated quoted string of repeated backslash escapes in mammoth/style-map to block the Node.js event loop.
Timeline
Published:October 4th, 2026 6:16 PM
Last modified:October 5th, 2026 3:17 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 7.5 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js
- https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/blob/1.12.2/lib/styles/parser/tokeniser.js#L6-L30
- https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/commit/dc49225425c2c07de0a6dc3529f2386c82a032b4
- https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/issues/487
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mammoth-js-1.3.0-before-1.12.3-redos-via-style-map-tokeniser
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute