ubuntu-cve-2025-62494
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine. * The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string. * It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf). * During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array). * The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string. This mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime.
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libquickjs",
"binary_version": "2021.03.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "quickjs",
"binary_version": "2021.03.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS",
"name": "quickjs",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/quickjs@2021.03.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/noble"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"2021.03.27-1",
"2021.03.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libquickjs",
"binary_version": "2025.04.26-1"
},
{
"binary_name": "quickjs",
"binary_version": "2025.04.26-1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10",
"name": "quickjs",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/quickjs@2025.04.26-1?arch=source\u0026distro=questing"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"2024.01.13-5",
"2025.04.26-1"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libquickjs",
"binary_version": "2025.04.26-1build1"
},
{
"binary_name": "quickjs",
"binary_version": "2025.04.26-1build1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS",
"name": "quickjs",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/quickjs@2025.04.26-1build1?arch=source\u0026distro=resolute"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"2025.04.26-1",
"2025.04.26-1build1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine. * The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string. * It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf). * During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array). * The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string. This mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62494",
"modified": "2026-05-20T15:22:57Z",
"published": "2025-10-16T16:15:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-62494"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62494"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://issuetracker.google.com/434193023"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://bellard.org/quickjs/Changelog"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2025-62494"
]
}
Sightings
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