CVE-2026-52746

high

Description

JSONata is a JSON query and transformation language. Prior to 2.2.0, malicious non-matching inputs to the $toMillis function can cause superlinear backtracking in the ISO-8601 validation regex, leading to denial of service in applications that evaluate user-provided JSONata expressions. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.0.

References

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/security/advisories/GHSA-86vw-mfpg-wwv9

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/releases/tag/v2.2.0

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/793

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/782

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/commit/d6ffc17cb16a8e53c222205bd274624e919cce0b

https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/commit/80ba95d170f74e3f20f4f36b8b77d8c85cea7686

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-17

Updated: 2026-07-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00684