HIGH7.5

GHSA-6429-3g3w-6mw5

Uncaught Exception in bignum

Details

All versions of the npm package bignum are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a type-check exception in V8. When verifying the type of the second argument to the .powm function, V8 will crash regardless of Node try/catch blocks.

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Affected packages

npm/bignum

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25324[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum/blob/ef2e02533e598d6df8421000033c4753cde89ee2/index.js#L111[WEB]
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581[WEB]