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. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-YASMYASM-6180553
  • published9 Sept 2024
  • disclosed18 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-51258  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

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