file-type

Releases169

Frequency3 weeks 5 days

Last Release about 2 months ago

Detect the file type of a file, stream, or data

CVE History

CVE	Published	CVSS v3	CVSS v2
CVE-2022-36313 ↗	Jul 21, 2022Thursday, 21 July 2022, 16:15	5.5 MEDIUM	—
An issue was discovered in the file-type package before 16.5.4 and 17.x before 17.1.3 for Node.js. A malformed MKV file could cause the file type detector to get caught in an infinite loop. This would make the application become unresponsive and could be used to cause a DoS attack.