# CVE-2026-102414: pbkdf2 rehashes long passwords on every iteration, enabling denial of service

- Also known as: GHSA-477H-4R7F-FVRX
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.1.7
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-30

## Affected

- pbkdf2: through 3.1.6
- pbkdf2 (npm): fixed in 3.1.7

## Description

pbkdf2 through 3.1.6 re-hashes passwords longer than the digest's block size on every iteration in its JavaScript fallback (lib/sync.js). A password longer than the block size (64 bytes, or 128 bytes for sha384 and sha512) is passed to HMAC as the key on every iteration, and HMAC hashes such keys in full each time. Cost is therefore O(iterations × password length), and a long password can block the event loop. The fallback is used by pbkdf2Sync and pbkdf2 on Node.js before 0.12, on Bun (1.0.0 through 1.1.34, and 1.2.6 and later), and on Deno 2.9.0 and later, because their native pbkdf2Sync fails the library's feature check. It is also used when lib/sync.js is imported directly. Node.js 0.12 and later, and browser builds (which use lib/sync-browser.js), are not affected. Applications that enforce a reasonable maximum password length are not meaningfully affected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pbkdf2, upgrade to a fixed version (3.1.7) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/browserify/pbkdf2/security/advisories/GHSA-477h-4r7f-fvrx
- https://github.com/browserify/pbkdf2/issues/82
- https://github.com/browserify/pbkdf2/commit/493d8d8

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