# CVE-2026-73089: Browserslist: Unbounded memory growth (no cache eviction) via distinct query results, leading to eventual OOM

- Also known as: GHSA-C83G-RGW3-J3CX
- 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: 4.28.7
- Published: 2026-08-11 · Updated: 2026-08-13

## Affected

- browserslist: fixed in 4.28.7
- browserslist (npm): fixed in 4.28.7

## Description

Browserslist is a configuration tool for sharing target browsers and Node.js versions between front-end tools. Prior to 4.28.7, index.js retains every distinct `(queries, context)` result in cache and every parseQueries() AST in parseCache without a size cap, TTL, or eviction, allowing an attacker who can influence repeated browserslist() query values, including valid since `<year>-<month>-<day>` queries, to bypass the caller-controlled BROWSERSLIST_DISABLE_CACHE mitigation and cause linear memory growth followed by an out-of-memory process crash. This issue is fixed in version 4.28.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on browserslist, upgrade to a fixed version (4.28.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/security/advisories/GHSA-c83g-rgw3-j3cx
- https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/commit/f2931a3ff2a3a31abf84ef01a7400b270aad6405
- https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/releases/tag/4.28.7

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