Process crash via unchecked N-API conversions
Published Jul 10, 2024 · Updated Jul 9, 2026
Denial of service in zhangyuanwei images 3.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash a Node.js process via crafted arguments. The native Image.cc bindings pass constructor, width, height, resize, rotate, and fill arguments to N-API conversion functions without validating their JavaScript types, then assert that conversion succeeded; size(0) separately triggers a segmentation fault. The host application must pass attacker-controlled values into an affected library call, and the bounded consequence is termination of that process.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in zhangyuanwei images 3.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash a Node.js process via crafted arguments. The native Image.cc bindings pass constructor, width, height, resize, rotate, and fill arguments to N-API conversion functions without validating their JavaScript types, then assert that conversion succeeded; size(0) separately triggers a segmentation fault. The host application must pass attacker-controlled values into an affected library call, and the bounded consequence is termination of that process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-21523
- Published
- Jul 10, 2024
- Updated
- Jul 9, 2026
- Vendor
- zhangyuanwei
- Product
- images
- Classifications
- CWE-241, CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- Denial of Service in images 3.2.4 proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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