CVE-2026-45357CWE-400

LiquidJS: Memory and render limit bypass via unbounded width padding in `date` filter (strftime)

High · published June 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00655 · 50.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-06-17T22:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUN 22:32Z
    LiquidJS: Memory and render limit bypass via unbounded width padding in `date` filter (strftime)
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