CVE-2024-43367
August 15, 2024
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.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncaught Exception
EPSS
Base Score:
0.22