js-toml has silent type confusion via falsy-primitive duplicate-key bypass
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript, Prior to version 1.1.2, the interpreter checks whether a key already exists in a parser-built container with `if (object[key])` instead of `if (key in object)`. When the prior value is a falsy primitive — `false`, `0`, `0n`, `0.0`, `-0`, or `""` — the duplicate-key branch is skipped and the value is silently overwritten by a later sub-table, dotted-key sub-table, or array-of-tables sharing the same name. Per the TOML 1.0.0 spec ("Defining a key multiple times is invalid"; "You cannot define any key or table more than once"), this should be a parse error. The result is structural type confusion of attacker-named keys in the value returned by `load()`. A boolean-typed `false` (or numeric `0`) becomes a truthy object. Host applications that gate behavior on `if (config.flag)`, `if (!user.banned)`, `if (config.allowDelete)`, or `if (config.publicMode)` will silently take the truthy branch. This is distinct from GHSA-65fc-cr5f-v7r2 (the 1.0.2 prototype-pollution fix). `Object.prototype` is not polluted. The `Object.create(null)` mitigation from 1.0.2 is intact; the bug here is in the duplicate-key state machine, not in container construction. Version 1.1.2 patches the incorrect comparison.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sunnyadn | js-toml | before 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | js-toml (npm) | before 1.1.2 | 1.1.2 | Patch available | GHSA-m34p-749j-x6m6 |
- js-toml Vendorsunnyadn Affected before 1.1.2 Fixed in 1.1.2 Patch available CNA
- js-toml (npm) Vendor— Affected before 1.1.2 Fixed in 1.1.2 Patch available GHSA-m34p-749j-x6m6
Remediation
- Fix · CNA js-toml (sunnyadn) Fixed in 1.1.2
- Fix · GHSA-m34p-749j-x6m6 js-toml (npm) Fixed in 1.1.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-50029
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m34p-749j-x6m6
References
More sunnyadn vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-34557 js-toml is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.9
- TI-2026-36479 CPU exhaustion via O(n^2) BigInt construction on radix-prefixed integer literals CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-45186 js-toml: Uncontrolled recursion in `load()` causes `RangeError` (stack exhaustion) on deeply nested input CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-50029 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-50029 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m34p-749j-x6m6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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