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FKIE_CVE-2025-62491

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-16 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:51

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability exists in the QuickJS engine's standard library when iterating over the global list of unhandled rejected promises (ts->rejected_promise_list). * The function js_std_promise_rejection_check attempts to iterate over the rejected_promise_list to report unhandled rejections using a standard list loop. * The reason for a promise rejection is processed inside the loop, including calling js_std_dump_error1(ctx, rp->reason). * If the promise rejection reason is an Error object that defines a custom property getter (e.g., via Object.defineProperty), this getter is executed during the error dumping process. * The malicious custom getter can execute JavaScript code that calls catch() on the same rejected promise being processed. * Calling catch() internally triggers js_std_promise_rejection_tracker, which then removes and frees the current promise entry (JSRejectedPromiseEntry) from the rejected_promise_list. * Since the list iteration continues using the now-freed memory pointer (el), the subsequent loop access results in a Use-After-Free condition.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve-coordination@google.com	https://bellard.org/quickjs/Changelog	Release Notes
	cve-coordination@google.com	https://issuetracker.google.com/434195203	Exploit, Issue Tracking

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	quickjs_project	quickjs	*

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CVE-2025-62491 (GCVE-0-2025-62491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-16 15:51 – Updated: 2025-10-16 18:04

Title

Use-after-free in js_std_promise_rejection_check in QuickJS

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-16 18:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

Google Google root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bellard.org/quickjs/Changelog
https://issuetracker.google.com/434195203

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
QuickJS	QuickJS	Affected: 2025-04-26 , < 2025-09-13 (date)

Date Public

2025-07-24 22:00

Credits

Google Big Sleep

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