CVE-2025-59466 Denial of service in node

What is CVE-2025-59466?

CVE-2025-59466 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 20 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

We have identified a bug in Node.js error handling where "Maximum call stack size exceeded" errors become uncatchable when `async_hooks.createHook()` is enabled. Instead of reaching `process.on('uncaughtException')`, the process terminates, making the crash unrecoverable. Applications that rely on `AsyncLocalStorage` (v22, v20) or `async_hooks.createHook()` (v24, v22, v20) become vulnerable to denial-of-service crashes triggered by deep recursion under specific conditions.

Weakness: CWE-248

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59466?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including node and node-min. It affects 1 product.

Products include Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2025-59466?

Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 20.20.0, 22.22.0, 24.13.0 or 25.3.0.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-59466 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59466 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2023-32002 Security feature bypass in Node Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6303 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-15896 Security feature bypass in Node.js Critical 9.1
• CVE-2018-7160 Server-side request forgery in Node.js High 8.8
• CVE-2018-12120 Misconfiguration in Node.js High 8.1

All Nodejs Node.js vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2025-59466, AZL-74973, AZL-74985, BELL-CVE-2025-59466, BIT-node-2025-59466, BIT-node-min-2025-59466 and 11 more.