Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting yasm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-YASM-10078564
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-51258  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') via the new_Token function. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exploiting the memory leak issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1