muhammara and hummus vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

2022-12-0517:37:22

CWE-690

GitHub Advisory Database

github.com

muhammara

hummus

denial of service

update

untrusted sources

parsed

pdf

vulnerability

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

46.9%

JSON

Impact

The package muhammara before 2.6.2, from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0; 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 3.4.0 and has been backported to 2.6.2
There is no patch for hummus, currently

Workarounds

Do not process files from untrusted sources or update.
Replace hummus with muhammara

References

https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/235
https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/238

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

muhammara_projectmuhammaraRange<2.6.2

muhammara_projectmuhammaraRange3.0.0–3.4.0

hummus_projecthummusRange<2.6.2node.js

VendorProductVersionCPE
muhammara_projectmuhammara*cpe:2.3:a:muhammara_project:muhammara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hummus_projecthummus*cpe:2.3:a:hummus_project:hummus:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
muhammara_project	muhammara	*	cpe:2.3:a:muhammara_project:muhammara::::::::
hummus_project	hummus	*	cpe:2.3:a:hummus_project:hummus::::::node.js::*