Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting yasm/yasm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-YASMYASM-6180553
  • published 9 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 18 Jan 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

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

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') via the new_Token function. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exploiting the memory leak issue.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.5 medium