# CVE-2026-49293: CPU exhaustion via O(n^2) BigInt construction on radix-prefixed integer literals

- Also known as: GHSA-WP3C-266W-4QFQ
- 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=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.1
- Published: 2026-06-19 · Updated: 2026-06-22

## Affected

- sunnyadn js-toml: fixed in 1.1.1
- js-toml (npm): fixed in 1.1.1

## Description

js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript, fully compliant with the TOML 1.0.0 Spec. Versions up to and including 1.1.0 parse hexadecimal / octal / binary integer literals via a hand-written `parseBigInt` loop that multiplies a `BigInt` accumulator by the radix once per input digit. Each iteration performs a `BigInt * BigInt` operation on an accumulator that grows linearly with the number of digits already consumed, so the whole loop is O(n²) in the literal length. The lexer regex places no upper bound on the literal length, so a single TOML document containing one ~500 kB hex literal pins one CPU core for ~40 seconds on a modern laptop (Apple M-series, Node v22). Memory amplification is bounded but CPU amplification is severe and grows quadratically: doubling the literal length quadruples the work. A caller that invokes `load()` on attacker-controlled TOML (configuration upload endpoints, CI/CD systems ingesting third-party `*.toml`, IDE plugins, build tools) is exposed to a single-request CPU exhaustion DoS. Version 1.1.1 fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sunnyadn js-toml, js-toml, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/security/advisories/GHSA-wp3c-266w-4qfq
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/commit/1abcb31dc7b1fa88e4c848a8d108891cfbb96fa2
- https://github.com/sunnyadn/js-toml/releases/tag/v1.1.1

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