CVE-2017-5941: Node-Serialize Project Node-Serialize

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the node-serialize package 0.0.4 for Node.js. Untrusted data passed into the unserialize() function can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution by passing a JavaScript Object with an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

Affected products

• Node-Serialize Project Node-Serialize: up to and including 0.0.4

Published 2017-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.