Vulnerability · Published May 3, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-41959

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the iotjs package (Ubuntu). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

JerryScript Git version 14ff5bf does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory via jerry-core/ecma/operations/ecma-regexp-object.c after RegExp, which causes a memory leak.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	iotjs	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2021-41959

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/4781 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/pull/4787 x_refsource_MISC