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GHSA-2R7V-CMCH-5X26

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-05 17:37 – Updated: 2022-12-05 17:37

Summary

muhammara and hummus vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

Details

Impact

The package muhammara before 2.6.2, from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed.

Patches

It has been patched in 3.4.0 and has been backported to 2.6.2 There is no patch for hummus, currently

Workarounds

Do not process files from untrusted sources or update. Replace hummus with muhammara

References

https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/235 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/238

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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    "nvd_published_at": "2022-11-28T15:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\nThe package muhammara before 2.6.2, from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed.\n\n### Patches\nIt has been patched in 3.4.0 and has been backported to 2.6.2\nThere is no patch for hummus, currently\n\n### Workarounds\nDo not process files from untrusted sources or update.\nReplace hummus with muhammara\n\n### References\nhttps://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/235\nhttps://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/238",
  "id": "GHSA-2r7v-cmch-5x26",
  "modified": "2022-12-05T17:37:22Z",
  "published": "2022-12-05T17:37:22Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41957"
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      "url": "https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/238"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS"
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "muhammara and hummus vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference"
}

CVE-2022-41957 (GCVE-0-2022-41957)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:34

Title

muhammara vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

Summary

Muhammara is a node module with c/cpp bindings to modify PDF with JavaScript for node or electron. The package muhammara before 2.6.2 and from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0, as well as all versions of muhammara's predecessor package hummus, are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed. The issue has been patched in muhammara version 3.4.0 and the fix has been backported to version 2.6.2. As a workaround, do not process files from untrusted sources. If using hummus, replace the package with muhammara.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 15:48 UTC

CWE

CWE-690 - Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/securi…
https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/235
https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/238

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
julianhille	MuhammaraJS	Affected: < 2.6.2 Affected: >= 3.0.0, < 3.4.0

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