# Scriban: Built-in operations bypass LoopLimit and delay cancellation, enabling Denial of Service

Advisory record · `GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc` · `CVE-2026-74789`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.7 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 24 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 17 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Mar 2026, 22:13 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `scriban` (NuGet): affected `<7.0.0`; fixed in `7.0.0`
- `Scriban.Signed` (NuGet): affected `<7.0.0`; fixed in `7.0.0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Scriban versions before 7.0.0 (both the scriban and Scriban.Signed NuGet packages) allow a template to bypass the LoopLimit setting through built-in operations, such as a range passed to array.size or a large string repetition. An attacker who can submit templates to an application that renders them can force heavy CPU or memory use from a single expression, causing denial of service. Upgrade to version 7.0.0 or later, which is the fixed version listed.

Written 9 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.7 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (VulnCheck)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0060, the 48th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc)
- [OSV: GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc)
- <https://github.com/scriban/scriban/security/advisories/GHSA-c875-h985-hvrc>
- <https://github.com/scriban/scriban>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
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