CVE-2026-63476: medium-severity vulnerability in isomorphic-git
isomorphic-git: Unbounded memory allocation from attacker-controlled delta target size (DoS)
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.3epss 0.3%
isomorphic-git is a pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node.js and browsers. Prior to 1.38.6, isomorphic-git reads a server-controlled targetSize while applying a packfile delta in src/utils/applyDelta.js and passes it without a bound to Buffer.alloc(targetSize). A malicious or man-in-the-middle-controlled remote can send one delta header that causes git.clone() or git.fetch() to allocate approximately 2 GB before validating the actual delta output. GitPackIndex.fromPack swallows the later size-mismatch error, so a host with sufficient memory may retain the resource waste without a visible failure, while containers, serverless functions, and small virtual machines may terminate. Node.js heap limits do not mitigate the off-heap Buffer allocation. This issue is fixed in version 1.38.6.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
isomorphic-git · isomorphic-gitRelated CVEs — isomorphic-git
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-63395HIGHisomorphic-git: Arbitrary file write outside the working tree via a directory symlink during checkout (potential RCE)EPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-89011HIGHisomorphic-git < 1.42.0 Prototype Pollution via getRemoteInfoEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-63475MEDIUMisomorphic-git: Circular symbolic references cause non-terminating resolution (DoS)EPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-63478MEDIUMisomorphic-git: Path traversal via a ".." tree-entry name writes files outside the working directory on clone/checkoutEPSS 0.3%
References
https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/commit/823843d1cd19182df79bc907c767f5bcecb39a0bhttps://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/pull/2370https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/releases/tag/v1.38.6https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/security/advisories/GHSA-9x82-4j54-863h