VulnerabilityPublished 11 Nov 2026

CVE-2026-58505: maplibre geojson-vt · Uncontrolled Recursion

Affects maplibre geojson-vtSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade to 6.1.1 soon.

Data as of 11 Nov 2026, 18:34 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

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CVSS scores by source
CNA (GitHub_M)	CVSS 3.1	7.5

Patch: Available – fixed in 6.1.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 11 Nov 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 11 Nov 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade maplibre geojson-vt to 6.1.1.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
maplibregeojson-vt	Affected <6.1.1	Fixed in 6.1.1

AI-suggested

Upgrade to geojson-vt version 6.1.1 or later, where this uncontrolled recursion vulnerability has been patched. No other mitigations are specified or required.

Description

CVE-2026-58505 is a high-severity vulnerability in the maplibre geojson-vt JavaScript library prior to version 6.1.1. The flaw is an uncontrolled recursion in the GeoJSON conversion logic that leads to a call stack overflow and process termination when handling deeply nested GeometryCollection objects. This can be triggered remotely without authentication by sending a crafted GeoJSON payload, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The issue is fixed in version 6.1.1.

Impact

An attacker can remotely cause a denial-of-service by triggering a stack overflow through a crafted GeoJSON payload. This results in the termination of the Node.js process running the geojson-vt library, disrupting service availability. No confidentiality or integrity impacts are reported. The vulnerability requires no authentication and no special library options, making exploitation straightforward in vulnerable environments.

Summary

The geojson-vt library, used for slicing GeoJSON data into vector tiles, contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in its featureToInternal and convertGeometryCollection functions. When a GeoJSONVT instance processes a deeply nested GeometryCollection, the recursion exhausts the Node.js call stack, causing an unhandled RangeError and terminating the process. This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted GeoJSON payload to server-side tile services using affected versions of the library. The vulnerability is addressed in geojson-vt version 6.1.1.

CWE-674Uncontrolled Recursion (opens in a new tab)
Class weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Implementation
Ensure that an end condition will be reached under all logic conditions. The end condition may include checking against the depth of recursion and exiting with an error if the recursion goes too deep. The complexity of the end condition contributes to the effectiveness of this action.
Implementation
Increase the stack size.
Attack patterns
Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (opens in a new tab)
Oversized Serialized Data Payloads (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 11 Nov 2026, 18:34 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-674

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