Seroval: Deserialization invokes attacker-chosen callables: AsyncIteratorFactoryInstance calls source.on(listener) without type check
CVE-2026-116580 · GHSA-7rv5-mrxv-xcr9 · published 28 Oct 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.3 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2026-116580?
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Who is affected
seroval(npm) <= 1.6.7
How to check
- Run
npm ls serovalin your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages. - Or paste your lockfile into the checker: it lists every package with a known vulnerability, this one included.
- Or run
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How to fix
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- Upgrade
serovalto 1.6.8 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy. - If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
### Summary
When `fromJSON` rebuilt an async iterator, it called `on()` on the iterator's source without checking that the source was a seroval stream. A crafted payload could pick another value as the source, such as a function returned by an application plugin. The deserializer then called that value's `on` method.
This is a variant of GHSA-mv8w-475r-vwqw. That fix covered the promise and stream control nodes but not the async iterator node.
### Impact
An application that passes untrusted input to `fromJSON` with plugins that return callable values can have those callables invoked during deserialization. What this allows depends on what the plugin's values do.
### Affected versions
- Versions up to 1.6.3 accept any value as the source.
- 1.6.4 rejects the reported payload.
- 1.6.5 to 1.6.7 check the source by node type, which a payload can get around by reusing a node id.
- All versions up to 1.6.7 should be treated as affected.
### Patches
Fixed in `seroval@1.6.8`. Streams and sequences are now internal class instances. The deserializer checks the source value with `instanceof`, so plain data and plugin values are rejected no matter which node id they use.
### Workarounds
Avoid plugins whose `deserialize` returns functions or objects with an `on` method when decoding untrusted input. Upgrading to 1.6.8 is recommended.
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References
- github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/security/advisories/GHSA-7rv5-mrxv-xcr9
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116580
- github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/commit/3edc78b495ea0d6bd498143e5b3e56996607c5f2
- github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/commit/50926b3ee198fb757e6ce3aa70efeed38d931c8d
- github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval/releases/tag/seroval@1.6.8
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rv5-mrxv-xcr9
- github.com/lxsmnsyc/seroval
Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 29 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON