CVE-2025-62494
Essential information
- Published
- 16/10/2025 16:15
- Modified
- 16/10/2025 16:15
- Author
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- CVSS
- 7.1 HIGH (v3) 7.1 HIGH (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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- Privileges required
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- Attack vector
- ADJACENT
- Attack complexity
- HIGH
- Attack requirements
- PRESENT
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- PASSIVE
- Confidentiality (V)
- HIGH
- Confidentiality (S)
- HIGH
- Integrity (V)
- HIGH
- Integrity (S)
- HIGH
- Availability (V)
- LOW
- Availability (S)
- LOW
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine.
* The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string.
* It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf).
* During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array).
* The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string.
This mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| quickjs / quickjs | cpe:2.3:a:quickjs:quickjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |