CVE-2026-72912 (GCVE-0-2026-72912)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 21:02 – Updated: 2026-08-12 22:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
CyberChef’s pretty-recipe parser vulnerable to client-side ReDoS / CPU exhaustion when parsing a malformed #recipe= URL
Summary
CyberChef is a web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. Prior to 11.3.0, CyberChef's pretty-recipe parser in src/core/Utils.mjs can exhaust client-side CPU when a malformed #recipe= URL fragment containing a large number of unmatched quote characters reaches Utils.parseRecipeConfig(). The function synchronously applies a complex global regular expression that may perform heavy backtracking before rejecting the input, causing the victim's browser tab to freeze during startup for seconds or longer. No code execution, data exfiltration, or privilege escalation occurs. This issue is fixed in version 11.3.0.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 22:08 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/security/adviso… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/pull/2687 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/commit/f77ddf48… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/releases/tag/v11.3.0 | x_refsource_MISC |
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Nomenclature
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