Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting netsurf-browser/netsurf package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETSURFBROWSERNETSURF-13832219
  • published11 Nov 2025
  • disclosed3 Nov 2025
  • creditFysac

Introduced: 3 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-45663  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for netsurf-browser/netsurf.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable via uninitialized parameters of dom_event in libdom's events/event.c. An attacker can cause the application to access sensitive or unpredictable data by triggering the creation of a dom_event structure that reads uninitialized heap memory.

This vulnerability has been patched in libdom with commit 9ea069f.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1