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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-30300 json

An issue in the component hang.wasm of WebAssembly 1.0 causes an infinite loop.

published 2023-05-03 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-34723

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in the component hang.wasm of WebAssembly 1.0 causes an infinite loop.

Patch / fix

  • wabt Debian 14, Debian 13 1.0.33-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30300

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-2023-30300 updated

wabt: wasm2c hangs on certain inputs and cannot finish execution for a while

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues/2180 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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