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HIGH7.5

GHSA-f67q-wr6w-23jq

Boa has an uncaught exception when transitioning the state of `AsyncGenerator` objects

Details

A wrong assumption made when handling ECMAScript's `AsyncGenerator` operations can cause an uncaught exception on certain scripts.

## Details

Boa's implementation of `AsyncGenerator` makes the assumption that the state of an `AsyncGenerator` object cannot change while resolving a promise created by methods of `AsyncGenerator` such as `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.next`, `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.return`, or `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.throw`. However, a carefully constructed code could trigger a state transition from a getter method for the promise's `then` property, which causes the engine to fail an assertion of this assumption, causing an uncaught exception. This could be used to create a Denial Of Service attack in applications that run arbitrary ECMAScript code provided by an external user.

## Patches

Version 0.19.0 is patched to correctly handle this case.

## Workarounds

Users unable to upgrade to the patched version would want to use [`std::panic::catch_unwind`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html) to ensure any exceptions caused by the engine don't impact the availability of the main application.

## References

- https://github.com/boa-dev/boa/commit/69ea2f52ed976934bff588d6b566bae01be313f7 - https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/security/advisories/GHSA-g38c-wh3c-5h9r

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Affected packages

crates.io/boa_engine
Introduced in: 0.16Fixed in: 0.19.0

Upgrade boa_engine to 0.19.0 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

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