Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting netsurf-browser/netsurf package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.11% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETSURFBROWSERNETSURF-13832221
  • published11 Nov 2025
  • disclosed3 Nov 2025
  • creditFysac

Introduced: 3 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2024-51317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (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 Arbitrary Code Injection via the dom_node_normalize function in libdom's core/node.c. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted input to this function.

This vulnerability has been patched in libdom with commit 7d317df.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1