CVE-2021-39228CWE-416CWE-825

Memory Safety Issue when using patch or merge on state and assign the result back to state

Medium · published September 17, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Tremor is an event processing system for unstructured data. A vulnerability exists between versions 0.7.2 and 0.11.6. This vulnerability is a memory safety Issue when using `patch` or `merge` on `state` and assign the result back to `state`. In this case, affected versions of Tremor and the tremor-script crate maintains references to memory that might have been freed already. And these memory regions can be accessed by retrieving the `state`, e.g. send it over TCP or HTTP. This requires the Tremor server (or any other program using tremor-script) to execute a tremor-script script that uses the mentioned language construct. The issue has been patched in version 0.11.6 by removing the optimization and always cloning the target expression of a Merge or Patch. If an upgrade is not possible, a possible workaround is to avoid the optimization by introducing a temporary variable and not immediately reassigning to `state`.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01349 · 71.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-416 · Use After Free; CWE-825 · Expired Pointer Dereference
Published
2021-09-17T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 14:00Z
    Memory Safety Issue when using patch or merge on state and assign the result back to state
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