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CVE-2024-43367

· Published 15/08/2024 21:15 · Modified 15/08/2024 21:15

Labels: CVE-2024-43367 2024-08-15CVE-2024-43367CWE-248[email protected]

Essential information

Published
15/08/2024 21:15
Modified
15/08/2024 21:15
Author
Creator
CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Description

Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Starting in version 0.16 and prior to version 0.19.0, a wrong assumption made when handling ECMAScript's `AsyncGenerator` operations can cause an uncaught exception on certain scripts. Boa's implementation of `AsyncGenerator` makes the assumption that the state of an `AsyncGenerator` object cannot change while resolving a promise created by methods of `AsyncGenerator` such as `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.next`, `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.return`, or `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.throw`. However, a carefully constructed code could trigger a state transition from a getter method for the promise's `then` property, which causes the engine to fail an assertion of this assumption, causing an uncaught exception. This could be used to create a Denial Of Service attack in applications that run arbitrary ECMAScript code provided by an external user. Version 0.19.0 is patched to correctly handle this case. Users unable to upgrade to the patched version would want to use `std::panic::catch_unwind` to ensure any exceptions caused by the engine don't impact the availability of the main application.

NVD status

Status
Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
[email protected]
NVD
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