Quickjs
CVE-2024-13903
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, buffer size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.3 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.64%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Mar 28, 2026
A vulnerability was found in quickjs-ng QuickJS up to 0.8.0. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. A vulnerability was found in quickjs-ng QuickJS up to 0.8.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function JS_GetRuntime of the file quickjs.c of the component qjs. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.9.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 99c02eb45170775a9a679c32b45dd4000ea67aff. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Affected products include: Quickjs-Ng Quickjs. Version information: up to 0.8.0..
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
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3DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability was found in quickjs-ng QuickJS up to 0.8.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function JS_GetRuntime of the file quickjs.c of the component qjs. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.9.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 99c02eb45170775a9a679c32b45dd4000ea67aff. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Executive ViewAI
Organizations using quickjs-ng QuickJS should be aware of moderate risk from CVE-2024-13903, a buffer overflow vulnerability rated CVSS 5.3. Exploitation could cause memory corruption or application crashes. Proof-of-concept code is publicly available. A patch is available and should be applied during regular vulnerability management.
Apply vendor patch. If patching is delayed: restrict network access and enable monitoring.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
A use-after-free in QuickJS's quickjs-libc standard library lets JavaScript code corrupt heap memory from inside the int
Use-after-free in QuickJS object-printing routines can corrupt memory when an attacker-influenced Array, Map, or Set is
QuickJS commit 2788d71 was discovered to contain a stack-overflow via the component js_proxy_isArray at quickjs.c. Rated
Heap out-of-bounds write in QuickJS's BigInt string parser can corrupt memory when an embedding application converts an
Integer overflow in QuickJS's libregexp bytecode accounting can become an out-of-bounds write when a crafted recursive r
Type confusion in QuickJS's handling of the string addition (+) operation allows local attackers to trigger out-of-bound
Information disclosure in QuickJS occurs through a floating-point precision error in TypedArray.prototype.indexOf() when
An out-of-bounds heap read in QuickJS's BigInt-to-string conversion (js_bigint_to_string1) lets script-controlled BigInt
Heap out-of-bounds write in QuickJS's bytecode deserializer (JS_ReadFunctionTag) lets a crafted serialized blob corrupt
quickjs-ng through 0.9.0 has a missing length check in JS_ReadString for a string, leading to a heap-based buffer overfl
quickjs-ng through 0.9.0 has an incorrect size calculation in JS_ReadBigInt for a BigInt, leading to a heap-based buffer
Heap-based buffer overflow in QuickJS up to version 0.11.0 within the js_typed_array_constructor function allows unauthe
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