Process crash via cumulative output limit bypass
Published Aug 16, 2026 · Updated Aug 16, 2026
Denial of service in Scriban before 7.0.0 allows attackers to crash the host application via templates that exhaust memory. In TemplateContext.Helpers.cs, ObjectToString resets _currentToStringLength on each top-level call, and StringBuilderOutput imposes no cumulative output cap, so a loop can append many near-limit strings despite LimitToString. Reachability requires control of template content in an application that renders Scriban templates; the published impact is an out-of-memory process crash rather than data exposure or code execution.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Scriban before 7.0.0 allows attackers to crash the host application via templates that exhaust memory. In TemplateContext.Helpers.cs, ObjectToString resets _currentToStringLength on each top-level call, and StringBuilderOutput imposes no cumulative output cap, so a loop can append many near-limit strings despite LimitToString. Reachability requires control of template content in an application that renders Scriban templates; the published impact is an out-of-memory process crash rather than data exposure or code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74786
- Published
- Aug 16, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 16, 2026
- Vendor
- Scriban
- Product
- Scriban
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <7.0.0
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