CVE-2021-41752 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a stack overflow and crash the application by triggering unbounded recursive calls in the Jerryscript JavaScript engine.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-41752?
CVE-2021-41752 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Jerryscript Jerryscript, published on 5 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Stack overflow vulnerability in Jerryscript before commit e1ce7dd7271288be8c0c8136eea9107df73a8ce2 on Oct 20, 2021 due to an unbounded recursive call to the new opt() function.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-41752?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Jerryscript Jerryscript.
How do I fix CVE-2021-41752?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-41752 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2021-41752 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-41752 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Jerryscript Jerryscript
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8rhh-q6h2-xgx4, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-41752.