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3 vulnerabilities found for motoko by dfinity
FKIE_CVE-2024-11991
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-12-09 15:15 - Updated: 2025-12-08 18:51
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
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CVE-2024-11991 (GCVE-0-2024-11991)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-09 14:38 – Updated: 2024-12-09 15:07
VLAI?
Title
Uninitialized memory access in Motoko incremental garbage collector
Summary
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Severity ?
5.6 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Computer | Motoko |
Affected:
0.9.0 , ≤ 0.13.3
(semver)
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CVE-2024-11991 (GCVE-0-2024-11991)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-12-09 14:38 – Updated: 2024-12-09 15:07
VLAI?
Title
Uninitialized memory access in Motoko incremental garbage collector
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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Affected:
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