Heap-data disclosure via unrooted BigInt operands
Published May 18, 2023 · Updated Jan 21, 2025
Use-after-free in BigInt addition in Meta Hermes before commit a6dcafe allows attackers to read raw data from the VM heap. In addOp_RJS, operand conversion can invoke attacker-controlled JavaScript and garbage collection, while addition later dereferences BigInts obtained from conversion results that are not kept rooted; the patch instead uses rooted primitive handles. When Hermes executes untrusted JavaScript, crafted coercion during BigInt addition can expose stale heap contents; most React Native applications do not execute untrusted JavaScript and are not affected.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in BigInt addition in Meta Hermes before commit a6dcafe allows attackers to read raw data from the VM heap. In addOp_RJS, operand conversion can invoke attacker-controlled JavaScript and garbage collection, while addition later dereferences BigInts obtained from conversion results that are not kept rooted; the patch instead uses rooted primitive handles. When Hermes executes untrusted JavaScript, crafted coercion during BigInt addition can expose stale heap contents; most React Native applications do not execute untrusted JavaScript and are not affected.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-24833
- Published
- May 18, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Product
- Hermes
- Classifications
- CWE-125, CWE-416
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- May 18, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <a6dcafe6ded8e61658b40f5699878cd19a481f80
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