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high 7.5

CVE-2021-45290 json

A Denial of Service vulnerability exits in Binaryen 103 due to an assertion abort in wasm::handle_unreachable.

published 2021-12-21 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-32070

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Denial of Service vulnerability exits in Binaryen 103 due to an assertion abort in wasm::handle_unreachable.

Patch / fix

  • binaryen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 104-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45290

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-45290 updated cvss 7.5

binaryen: assertion abort in wasm::handle_unreachable

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/issues/4383 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

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Sources

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