Vulnerability CVE-2021-24045


Published: 2021-12-13

Description:
A type confusion vulnerability could be triggered when resolving the "typeof" unary operator in Facebook Hermes prior to v0.10.0. Note that this is only exploitable if the application using Hermes permits evaluation of untrusted JavaScript. Hence, most React Native applications are not affected.

Type:

CWE-843

(Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Facebook -> Hermes 

 References:
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2021-24045
https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commit/55e1b2343f4deb1a1b5726cfe1e23b2068217ff2

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