CVE-2022-36313 (GCVE-0-2022-36313)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-21 15:31 – Updated: 2026-10-07 18:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in the file-type package before 16.5.4 and 17.x before 17.1.3 for Node.js. A malformed MKV file could cause the file type detector to get caught in an infinite loop. This would make the application become unresponsive and could be used to cause a DoS attack.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-07 18:49 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.