Advisories

vm2 before 3.11.6 Memory Exhaustion DoS via bufferAllocLimit Bypass

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • vm2 >= 0, < 3.11.6

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS
8.7
CVSS V4 Vector
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
Credit
Kr1shna4garwal
Description
vm2 before 3.11.6 fails to enforce bufferAllocLimit on ArrayBuffer, SharedArrayBuffer, and TypedArray constructors, allowing attackers to allocate arbitrary host memory. Attackers can bypass the buffer allocation cap by using these V8 intrinsics to exhaust host process memory and trigger out-of-memory conditions.

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