High severity · published Aug 15, 2024
CVE-2024-43367
Boa has an uncaught exception when transitioning the state of `AsyncGenerator` objects
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BO
boa · boa-dev
>= 0.16, < 0.19.0 · source: vendor, CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43367
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43367
github.com
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa/commit/69ea2f52ed976934bff588d6b566bae01be313f7
github.com
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa/security/advisories/GHSA-f67q-wr6w-23jq
github.com
https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/security/advisories/GHSA-g38c-wh3c-5h9r
