{"id":"CVE-2026-33418","aliases":["EUVD-2026-14875","GHSA-7j2x-32w6-p43p"],"status":"published","title":"@dicebear/converter ensureSize() Vulnerable to SVG Dimension Capping Bypass via XML Comment Injection","description":"DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.2, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes. In version 9.4.2, the regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00391,"percentile":0.33546,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-185"],"published":"2026-03-20T20:35:40Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:09Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"@dicebear/converter","fixed_in":["9.4.2"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@dicebear/converter","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.4.1"},{"fixed":"9.4.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@dicebear/converter","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.4.2"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"dicebear","product":"dicebear"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear/security/advisories/GHSA-7j2x-32w6-p43p","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33418","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j2x-32w6-p43p"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/33xxx/CVE-2026-33418.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-33418","title":"@dicebear/converter ensureSize() Vulnerable to SVG Dimension Capping Bypass via XML Comment Injection","description":"DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.2, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes. In version 9.4.2, the regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-24T13:25:57.54Z","modified":"2026-03-24T15:11:51.489Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-185"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:07.609948Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-14875","description":"DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.2, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes. In version 9.4.2, the regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-24T13:25:57Z","modified":"2026-03-24T15:11:51Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:25:29.933437Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-7j2x-32w6-p43p","title":"SVG Dimension Capping Bypass via XML Comment Injection in @dicebear/converter ensureSize()","description":"## Summary\n\nThe `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes.\n\n## Details\n\nThe vulnerable function used `String.prototype.replace()` with a non-global regex to find and rewrite the first `\u003csvg` tag's dimensions. Since the regex does not distinguish between `\u003csvg` appearing inside non-element XML constructs and the actual SVG root element, a crafted input can cause the regex to match a decoy instead of the real element, leaving the actual SVG dimensions unclamped.\n\nIn the Node.js rendering path, `renderAsync` from `@resvg/resvg-js` was called without a `fitTo` constraint, so it would render at whatever dimensions the SVG element specified — potentially allocating gigabytes of memory.\n\nThe browser code path is **not** vulnerable because it uses the clamped `size` return value from `ensureSize()` to set `canvas.width` and `canvas.height` directly.\n\n## Impact\n\nAny application that passes untrusted or user-supplied SVG content through `@dicebear/converter`'s Node.js conversion functions (`toPng`, `toJpeg`, `toWebp`, `toAvif`) is vulnerable to denial of service via excessive memory allocation. Note that `@dicebear/converter` can be used independently of DiceBear's avatar generation — any SVG string can be passed to the conversion functions.\n\nThe impact is limited to availability — there is no data disclosure or integrity impact. The browser code path is not affected.\n\n## Fix\n\nThe regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-20T20:35:40Z","modified":"2026-03-25T20:53:42Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-185"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:42.712607Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-33418","description":"DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.2, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes. In version 9.4.2, the regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-24T14:16:30.453Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:37:27.807Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-185"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:10.568062Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-33418","title":"@dicebear/converter ensureSize() Vulnerable to SVG Dimension Capping Bypass via XML Comment Injection","description":"DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. Prior to version 9.4.2, the `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes. In version 9.4.2, the regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-24T13:25:57.54Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:09.111384153Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-185"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:01.896044Z"},{"id":"GHSA-7j2x-32w6-p43p","title":"SVG Dimension Capping Bypass via XML Comment Injection in @dicebear/converter ensureSize()","description":"## Summary\n\nThe `ensureSize()` function in `@dicebear/converter` used a regex-based approach to rewrite SVG `width`/`height` attributes, capping them at 2048px to prevent denial of service. This size capping could be bypassed by crafting SVG input that causes the regex to match a non-functional occurrence of `\u003csvg` before the actual SVG root element. When the SVG is subsequently rendered via `@resvg/resvg-js` on the Node.js code path, it renders at the attacker-specified dimensions, potentially causing out-of-memory crashes.\n\n## Details\n\nThe vulnerable function used `String.prototype.replace()` with a non-global regex to find and rewrite the first `\u003csvg` tag's dimensions. Since the regex does not distinguish between `\u003csvg` appearing inside non-element XML constructs and the actual SVG root element, a crafted input can cause the regex to match a decoy instead of the real element, leaving the actual SVG dimensions unclamped.\n\nIn the Node.js rendering path, `renderAsync` from `@resvg/resvg-js` was called without a `fitTo` constraint, so it would render at whatever dimensions the SVG element specified — potentially allocating gigabytes of memory.\n\nThe browser code path is **not** vulnerable because it uses the clamped `size` return value from `ensureSize()` to set `canvas.width` and `canvas.height` directly.\n\n## Impact\n\nAny application that passes untrusted or user-supplied SVG content through `@dicebear/converter`'s Node.js conversion functions (`toPng`, `toJpeg`, `toWebp`, `toAvif`) is vulnerable to denial of service via excessive memory allocation. Note that `@dicebear/converter` can be used independently of DiceBear's avatar generation — any SVG string can be passed to the conversion functions.\n\nThe impact is limited to availability — there is no data disclosure or integrity impact. The browser code path is not affected.\n\n## Fix\n\nThe regex-based approach has been replaced with XML-aware processing using `fast-xml-parser` to correctly identify and modify the SVG root element's attributes. Additionally, a `fitTo` constraint has been added to the `renderAsync` call as defense-in-depth, ensuring the rendered output is always bounded regardless of SVG content.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-20T20:35:40Z","modified":"2026-03-25T21:05:05.061732Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-185"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:41.002603Z"}]}}