CVE-2020-13649 — parser/js/js-scanner

parser/js/js-scanner.c in JerryScript 2.2.0 mishandles errors during certain out-of-memory conditions, as demonstrated by a scanner_reverse_info_list NULL pointer dereference and a scanner_scan_all assertion failure.

01What is this vulnerability?

parser/js/js-scanner.c in JerryScript 2.2.0 mishandles errors during certain out-of-memory conditions, as demonstrated by a scanner_reverse_info_list NULL pointer dereference and a scanner_scan_all assertion failure.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-05-28T14:13:59.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.136Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3786
• github.com — https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/3788
• github.com — https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/69f8e78c2f8d562bd6d800…