CVE-2022-25324

HIGH

bignum - Denial of Service via .powm Function Type-Check Exception

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

All versions of package bignum are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a type-check exception in V8, when verifying the type of the second argument to the .powm function, V8 will crash regardless of Node try/catch blocks.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0138
EPSS Percentile 68.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-1321
Status published
Products (2)
bignum_project/bignum
npm/bignum 0npm
Published May 06, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026