CVE-2022-25892
muhammara and hummus vulnerable to denial of service by NULL pointer dereference
Description
### Impact The package muhammara before 2.6.1, from 3.0.0 and before 3.1.1; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed. ### Patches It has been patched in 3.1.1 and has been backported to 2.6.1 Hummus has a patch in 1.0.111. ### Workarounds Do not process files from untrusted sources or update. ### References https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25892 https://github.com/galkahana/HummusJS/issues/463 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/issues/214 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/commit/1890fb555eaf171db79b73fdc3ea543bbd63c002 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/commit/90b278d09f16062d93a4160ef0a54d449d739c51 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HUMMUS-3091138 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MUHAMMARA-3060320
How to fix CVE-2022-25892
To remediate CVE-2022-25892, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.111 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.1 or later
Is CVE-2022-25892 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.111
- from 0, < 2.6.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |