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CVE-2022-22138: Denial of Service (DoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-682

Description

All versions of package fast-string-search are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when computations are incorrect for non-string inputs. One can cause the V8 to attempt reading from non-permitted locations and cause a segmentation fault due to the violation.

Affected products

• fast-string-search: all versions

References

• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392367
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392367

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