Bug 2083150 (CVE-2022-25324)

Summary:	CVE-2022-25324 node-bignum: type-check exception in V8 could lead to DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Michael Kaplan <mkaplan>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Michael Kaplan 2022-05-09 13:02:20 UTC

All versions of package bignum are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a type-check exception in V8, when verifying the type of the second argument to the .powm function, V8 will crash regardless of Node try/catch blocks.

References:

https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum/blob/ef2e02533e598d6df8421000033c4753cde89ee2/index.js#L111
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581

Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2022-05-09 13:11:53 UTC

Closing as we don't ship this.