Bugzilla – Bug 1224361
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
Last modified: 2024-05-21 08:58:09 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
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
Same issue https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224381, different CVE number.
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
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.