# CVE-2026-29112: @dicebear/converter vulnerable to ncontrolled memory allocation via crafted SVG dimensions

- Also known as: GHSA-V3R3-4QGC-VW66
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.4.0
- Published: 2026-03-18 · Updated: 2026-03-18

## Affected

- dicebear: fixed in 9.4.0
- @dicebear/converter (npm): fixed in 9.4.0

## Description

DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.0, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` read the `width` and `height` attributes from the input SVG to determine the output canvas size for rasterization (PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF). An attacker who can supply a crafted SVG with extremely large dimensions (e.g. `width="999999999"`) could force the server to allocate excessive memory, leading to denial of service. This primarily affects server-side applications that pass untrusted or user-supplied SVGs to the converter's `toPng()`, `toJpeg()`, `toWebp()`, or `toAvif()` functions. Applications that only convert self-generated DiceBear avatars are not practically exploitable, but are still recommended to upgrade. This is fixed in version 9.4.0. The `ensureSize()` function no longer reads SVG attributes to determine output size. Instead, a new `size` option (default: 512, max: 2048) controls the output dimensions. Invalid values (NaN, negative, zero, Infinity) fall back to the default. If upgrading is not immediately possible, validate and sanitize the `width` and `height` attributes of any untrusted SVG input before passing it to the converter.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dicebear, @dicebear/converter, upgrade to a fixed version (9.4.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear/security/advisories/GHSA-v3r3-4qgc-vw66
- https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear/commit/42a59eac46a3c68598859e608ec45e578b27614a
- https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear/releases/tag/v9.4.0

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