Buffer Under-read Affecting workerd package, versions <1.20230419.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-WORKERD-5534524
  • published 14 May 2023
  • disclosed 12 May 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade workerd to version 1.20230419.0 or higher.

Overview

workerd is a 👷 workerd, Cloudflare's JavaScript/Wasm Runtime

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Under-read via the FormData API implementation, when containing more than 2^31 elements. The forEach() method can end up reading from the wrong location in memory while iterating over elements.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.1 high