CVE-2025-62494 Affecting quickjs package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream quickjs package and not the quickjs package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine.

• The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string.

• It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf).

• During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array).

• The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string.

This mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime.

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-62494
• https://bellard.org/quickjs/Changelog
• https://issuetracker.google.com/434193023