Bug 1224361

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-4068: python-panel: the npm package `braces` fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	daniel.garcia, gabriele.sonnu
Version:	Leap 15.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/405385/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-4068:7.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1224256

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-16 12:02:38 UTC

The NPM package `braces` fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is reached, and the program will crash.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-4068
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4068
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4068/
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/98414f9f1fabe021736e26836d8306d5de747e0d/lib/parse.js#L308
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35

Comment 1 Gabriele Sonnu 2024-05-16 12:05:48 UTC

A vulnerable version (3.0.2) of the braces package is embedded in:

- openSUSE:Factory/python-panel

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35

Comment 2 Daniel Garcia 2024-05-20 08:29:38 UTC

Same issue https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224381, different CVE number.

Comment 3 Daniel Garcia 2024-05-21 08:23:56 UTC

Looks like there's a fix in braces upstream [1] to avoid this issue. There will be a new release soon.

[1] https://github.com/micromatch/braces/pull/37

Comment 4 Gabriele Sonnu 2024-05-21 08:58:09 UTC

From https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224381#c2

> This code is not part of this python package, it's a devel node module used upstream for developers, so we can certainly say that it's not affected by this bug.

Closing this.