# CVE-2026-45357: LiquidJS: Memory and render limit bypass via unbounded width padding in \`date\` filter (strftime)

- Also known as: GHSA-HH27-HF48-9F5Q
- 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: 10.26.0
- Published: 2026-06-17 · Updated: 2026-06-18

## Affected

- harttle liquidjs: fixed in 10.26.0
- liquidjs (npm): fixed in 10.26.0

## Description

LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. In versions 10.25.7 and below, the date filter's strftime implementation parses width specifiers like %9999999d and forwards the captured width unchecked into pad()/padStart(), leading to memory and render limit bypass. In src/util/underscore.ts, the pad loop performs unbounded string concatenation without consulting the Context's memoryLimit or renderLimit, so a single small template ({{ x | date: '%5000000d' }}) produces megabytes of output and unbounded CPU. The memoryLimit and renderLimit options the docs (src/liquid-options.ts:87-92) advertise as DoS controls — and which the docstring explicitly mentions for strftime — are entirely bypassed. Exploitation can cause large memory allocations, high CPU usage, or OOM crashes per render. This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/security/advisories/GHSA-hh27-hf48-9f5q
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/3129d46dc95efa357b00e5a57ee1af80a13d72ed
- https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.26.0

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