CVE-2025-62494

Type confusion in string addition in QuickJS

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Oct 16, 2025
Updated
Oct 16, 2025
Reserved
Oct 15, 2025

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Description

A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine.

* The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string.

* It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf).

* During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array).

* The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string.

This mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:LGoogle

Weaknesses

  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Affected Products

ProductVersions
QuickJSQuickJS
  • 2025-04-26 to before 2025-09-13Affected

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