GHSA-54fx-42gc-7vw4
Hono: Algorithmic Complexity DoS in Language Middleware
Quick fix
GHSA-54fx-42gc-7vw4 — hono: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install hono@4.12.34 Details
### Summary
The `languageDetector` middleware is vulnerable to algorithmic complexity denial of service when processing a crafted language tag containing a large number of hyphen-separated subtags.
### Details
To implement progressive language-tag truncation, `normalizeLanguage()` repeatedly calls `parts.slice(0, i).join('-')` for every possible prefix. The total amount of string processing grows quadratically with the number of subtags.
Language values may come from a query parameter, cookie, `Accept-Language` header, or URL path, depending on the detector configuration. The default detector order enables query-string, cookie, and header detection, so applications using `languageDetector()` may expose this processing to unauthenticated requests.
Request-size limits reduce the maximum cost of a single request but do not eliminate the issue. Inputs accepted by common JavaScript runtimes can still cause noticeable synchronous event-loop blocking.
### Impact
An attacker may repeatedly send requests containing long, hyphen-separated language tags, causing excessive CPU consumption and preventing unrelated requests from being processed.
The practical impact depends on the runtime's request-size limits, reverse-proxy configuration, and the detectors enabled by the application.
### Resolution
The progressive lookup should avoid reconstructing every shorter prefix. The implementation can instead inspect the configured supported languages and select the longest value that matches the input at a hyphen boundary.
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