# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31808"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-10T21:01:55.466Z"
updatedAt: "2026-03-11T16:00:14.754Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31808"
title: "file-type affected by infinite loop in ASF parser on malformed input with zero-size sub-header"
summary: "file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. Prior to 21.3.1, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the ASF (WMV/WMA) file type detection parser. When parsing a crafted input where an ASF sub-header has a size field of zero, the parser enters an infinite loop. The payload value becomes negative (-24), causing tokenizer.ignore(payload) to move the read position backwards, so the same sub-header is read repeatedly forever. Any application that uses file-type to detect the type of untrusted/attacker-controlled input is affected. An attacker can stall the Node.js event loop with a 55-byte payload. Fixed in version 21.3.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003e= 13.0.0, \u003c 21.3.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"sindresorhus","product":"file-type"}]

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