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HIGH7.5

GHSA-v6c2-xwv6-8xf7

music-metadata has an infinite loop vulnerability in ASF parser

Quick fix

GHSA-v6c2-xwv6-8xf7 — music-metadata: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install music-metadata@11.12.3

Details

# Summary

music-metadata's ASF parser (`parseExtensionObject()` in `lib/asf/AsfParser.ts:112-158`) enters an infinite loop when a sub-object inside the ASF Header Extension Object has `objectSize = 0`.

## Root Cause

When objectSize is 0: 1. `remaining = 0 - 24 = -24` 2. `tokenizer.ignore(-24)` moves the read position backward by 24 bytes 3. `extensionSize -= 0` (loop counter never decreases) 4. `while (extensionSize > 0)` never exits 5. The same 24-byte header is re-read infinitely

This is the same pattern as CVE-2026-31808 (GHSA-5v7r-6r5c-r473) in file-type — strtok3's `AbstractTokenizer.ignore()` accepts negative values without validation.

## Affected Methods - `parseFile()` — HANGS (FileTokenizer inherits vulnerable ignore()) - `parseBuffer()` — HANGS (BufferTokenizer inherits vulnerable ignore()) - `parseStream()` — NOT affected (ReadStreamTokenizer has own ignore() that throws RangeError)

## Impact A 100-byte crafted .asf file permanently hangs any application using parseFile() or parseBuffer(). music-metadata has 2.2M weekly npm downloads.

## Suggested Fix Validate `objectSize >= minimumHeaderSize` before calculating the payload. Or fix strtok3's `AbstractTokenizer.ignore()` to reject negative values.

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Affected packages

npm/music-metadata
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 11.12.3
Fixnpm install music-metadata@11.12.3

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