QuickjsApplication · Quickjs Project

CVE-2025-62495

HIGH · 8.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-10-16
Fix available
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93/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Public exploit No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the QuickJS regular expression engine (libregexp) due to an inconsistent representation of the bytecode buffer size. * The regular expression bytecode is stored in a DynBuf structure, which correctly uses a $\text{size}\_\text{t}$ (an unsigned type, typically 64-bit) for its size member. * However, several functions, such as re_emit_op_u32 and other internal parsing routines, incorrectly cast or store this DynBuf $\text{size}\_\text{t}$ value into a signed int (typically 32-bit). * When a large or complex regular expression (such as those generated by a recursive pattern in a Proof-of-Concept) causes the bytecode size to exceed $2^{31}$ bytes (the maximum positive value for a signed 32-bit integer), the size value wraps around, resulting in a negative integer when stored in the int variable (Integer Overflow). * This negative value is subsequently used in offset calculations. For example, within functions like re_parse_disjunction, the negative size is used to compute an offset (pos) for patching a jump instruction. * This negative offset is then incorrectly added to the buffer pointer (s->byte\_code.buf + pos), leading to an out-of-bounds write on the first line of the snippet below: put_u32(s->byte_code.buf + pos, len);

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NVD · CPE data
QuickjsApplication
Affected:< 2025-09-13

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From the vector
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 2025-09-13 or later
Fixed in 2025-09-13
Recommended fix High confidence

QuickJS version 2025-09-13 or later (released on bellard.org)

  1. 1. Identify current QuickJS version in use by running `quickjs --version` or checking the binary/build timestamp
  2. 2. Download QuickJS version 2025-09-13 or later from the official source at bellard.org/quickjs/
  3. 3. Replace the existing quickjs binary or rebuild any projects linking against the vulnerable QuickJS library
  4. 4. Verify the upgrade was successful by running `quickjs --version` and confirming the date is 2025-09-13 or newer
  5. 5. Test that regex functionality works correctly with complex patterns that previously could have triggered the overflow

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