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Underscore.js versions before 1.13.8 can cause a website to crash

OESA-2026-1579
Summary

If your website uses an older version of the Underscore.js library, an attacker could potentially crash your site by passing in a specially crafted piece of data. To fix this, update to version 1.13.8 or later. If you're not using this library, you don't need to take any action.

What to do
  • Update nodejs-underscore to version 1.13.8-1.oe2403sp3.
Affected software
VendorProductAffected versionsFix available
– nodejs-underscore <= 1.13.8-1.oe2403sp3 1.13.8-1.oe2403sp3
Original title
nodejs-underscore security update
Original description
Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides support for the usual functional suspects (each, map, reduce, filter...) without extending any core JavaScript objects.

Security Fix(es):

Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript. Prior to version 1.13.8, the `_.flatten` and `_.isEqual` functions use recursion without a depth limit. Under very specific conditions, an attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by triggering a stack overflow. Exploitation requires all of the following: untrusted input must be used to create a deeply recursive data structure (e.g., via `JSON.parse` with no enforced depth limit), and this structure must be passed to `_.flatten` or `_.isEqual`. For `_.flatten`, the attacker must be able to prepare a data structure consisting solely of arrays at all levels, and no finite depth limit must be passed as the second argument to `_.flatten`. For `_.isEqual`, there must exist a code path where two distinct but structurally equivalent data structures, submitted by the same remote client, are compared using `_.isEqual`. Additionally, exceptions resulting from the stack overflow must not be caught. This vulnerability is fixed in version 1.13.8.(CVE-2026-27601)
Published: 15 Mar 2026 · Updated: 15 Mar 2026 · First seen: 15 Mar 2026