CVE-2018-17293 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the WAVM WebAssembly virtual machine, specifically versions prior to 2018-09-16. It stems from a NULL pointer dereference in the run function of Programs/wavm/wavm.cpp, where the application fails to verify the availability of Emscripten memory for command-line arguments. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by crafting malicious WebAssembly files, with a CVSS score of 8.8. While the potential for other impacts is unspecified, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2018-09-16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:webassembly_virtual_machine_project:webassembly_virtual_machine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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