CVE-2024-11991

Published Dec 9, 2024

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description
Motoko's incremental garbage collector is impacted by an uninitialized memory access bug, caused by incorrect use of write barriers in a few locations. This vulnerability could potentially allow unauthorized read or write access to a Canister's memory. However, exploiting this bug requires the Canister to enable the incremental garbage collector or enhanced orthogonal persistence, which are non-default features in Motoko.
Source
6b35d637-e00f-4228-858c-b20ad6e1d07b
NVD status
Received

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
5.6
Impact score
3.4
Exploitability score
2.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

6b35d637-e00f-4228-858c-b20ad6e1d07b
CWE-908

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