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CVE-2022-25872: Out-of-bounds Read

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

All versions of package fast-string-search are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read due to incorrect memory freeing and length calculation for any non-string input as the source. This allows the attacker to read previously allocated memory.

Affected products

• fast-string-search: all versions

References

• https://github.com/magiclen/node-fast-string-search/blob/c8dd9fc966abc80b327f509e63360f59e0de9fb5/src/fast-string-search.c%23L192
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392368
• https://github.com/magiclen/node-fast-string-search/blob/c8dd9fc966abc80b327f509e63360f59e0de9fb5/src/fast-string-search.c%23L192
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392368

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