CVE-2022-25872

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.23%

Out-of-bounds Read in fast-string-search

Published: 6/18/2022Modified: 3/16/2026

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 packages (1)

npm/fast-string-searchfrom 0, <= 1.4.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References (4)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25872
PATCHhttps://github.com/magiclen/node-fast-string-search
WEBhttps://github.com/magiclen/node-fast-string-search/blob/c8dd9fc966abc80b327f509e63360f59e0de9fb5/src/fast-string-search.c%23L192
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FASTSTRINGSEARCH-2392368