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CVE-2022-25324: Denial of Service (DoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1321

Description

All versions of package bignum are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a type-check exception in V8, when verifying the type of the second argument to the .powm function, V8 will crash regardless of Node try/catch blocks.

Affected products

• bignum: all versions

References

• https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum/blob/ef2e02533e598d6df8421000033c4753cde89ee2/index.js%23L111
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581
• https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum/blob/ef2e02533e598d6df8421000033c4753cde89ee2/index.js%23L111
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581

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