CVE Alert: CVE-2024-11991
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-11991
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.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
12/9/2024, 3:15:12 PM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/dfinity/motoko/pull/4677
- https://github.com/dfinity/motoko/security/advisories/GHSA-9rhg-3qf8-hrv3
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
A considerable amount of time and effort goes into maintaining this website, creating backend automation and creating new features and content for you to make actionable intelligence decisions. Everyone that supports the site helps enable new functionality.
If you like the site, please support us on “Patreon” or “Buy Me A Coffee” using the buttons below
To keep up to date follow us on the below channels.
