Answer in brief
CVE-2026-59168 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.2) vulnerability in Dasel: Unbounded recursion in JSON and XML readers causes unrecoverable stack-overflow DoS. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps TomWright/dasel (generic), github.com/tomwright/dasel (go), github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2 (go), github.com/tomwright/dasel/v3 (go) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.2. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps TomWright/dasel (generic), github.com/tomwright/dasel (go), github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2 (go), github.com/tomwright/dasel/v3 (go) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| TomWright/daselgeneric | >=3.0.0 <3.11.1 | 3.11.1 |
| github.com/tomwright/daselgo | >=0 | Not reported |
| github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2go | >=0 | Not reported |
| github.com/tomwright/dasel/v3go | >=3.0.0,<=3.11.0 | 3.11.1 |
| github.com/tomwright/dasel/v3go | >=3.0.0 <3.11.1 | 3.11.1 |
Published upstream
Sep 21, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 1, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 21, 2026
Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.11.1, parsing/json/json_reader.go decodeValue, decodeObject, and decodeArray, and parsing/xml/reader.go parseElement, recurse once per input nesting level without a depth guard. Deeply nested attacker-controlled JSON or XML supplied through parsing.Format(...).NewReader(...).Read(data), the command-line interface, or the parse selector function can exhaust the Go goroutine stack and raise an unrecoverable fatal error that terminates the entire process. The XML input-size limit does not prevent depth exhaustion, and defer or recover cannot intercept the failure. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1.
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