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high 7.5

CVE-2023-31670 json

An issue in wasm2c 1.0.32, wasm2wat 1.0.32, wasm-decompile 1.0.32, and wasm-validate 1.0.32 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (…

published 2023-05-23 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-35965

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in wasm2c 1.0.32, wasm2wat 1.0.32, wasm-decompile 1.0.32, and wasm-validate 1.0.32 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via running a crafted binary.

Patch / fix

  • wabt Debian 14, Debian 13 1.0.33-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31670

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-2023-31670 updated cvss 7.5

wasm2c: DoS via crafted binary

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 thunderbird
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11
    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
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues/2199 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Sources

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