# CVE-2026-46378: Dasel: Denial of service in dasel selector lexer due to infinite loop on unterminated regex literal

- Also known as: GO-2026-5493, GHSA-M6XR-FVFG-5G64
- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.10.1
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- TomWright dasel: from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.10.1
- github.com/tomwright/dasel (Go): all versions
- github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2 (Go): all versions
- github.com/tomwright/dasel/v3 (Go): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.10.1

## Description

Dasel is a command-line tool and library for querying, modifying, and transforming data structures. From 3.0.0 until 3.10.1, the selector lexer matchRegexPattern closure in (*Tokenizer).parseCurRune in selector/lexer/tokenize.go loops while tokenizing an unterminated regex literal such as r/ because peekRuneEqual returns false after the end of input, allowing attacker-controlled selector strings to consume CPU indefinitely. This issue is fixed in version 3.10.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on TomWright dasel, github.com/tomwright/dasel, github.com/tomwright/dasel/v2 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.10.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/security/advisories/GHSA-m6xr-fvfg-5g64
- https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/commit/95f8dd3af12958bf6ca2a737b3ec0267280f86ed

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