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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-21526 json

speaker vulnerable to Denial of Service

published 2024-07-10 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w5fc-gj3h-26rx , EUVD-2024-2432

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All versions of the package speaker are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when providing unexpected input types to the channels property of the Speaker object makes it possible to reach an assert macro. Exploiting this vulnerability can lead to a process crash.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm speaker
<=0.5.5
no fix listed

Affected products

  • n/a speaker
  • tootallnate node-speaker

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-241 Improper Handling of Unexpected Data Type

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.