CVE-2024-34075CWE-502

kurwov vulnerable to Denial of Service due to improper data sanitization

Medium · published May 3, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

kurwov is a fast, dependency-free library for creating Markov Chains. An unsafe sanitization of dataset contents on the `MarkovData#getNext` method used in `Markov#generate` and `Markov#choose` allows a maliciously crafted string on the dataset to throw and stop the function from running properly. If a string contains a forbidden substring (i.e. `__proto__`) followed by a space character, the code will access a special property in `MarkovData#finalData` by removing the last character of the string, bypassing the dataset sanitization (as it is supposed to be already sanitized before this function is called). Any dataset can be contaminated with the substring making it unable to properly generate anything in some cases. This issue has been addressed in version 3.2.5 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00299 · 21.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2024-05-03T17:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAY 17:51Z
    kurwov vulnerable to Denial of Service due to improper data sanitization
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