🛡️ CVE-2024-29489 — jerryscript

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-476 NVD

5.5

CVSS Score

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Description

Jerryscript 2.4.0 has SEGV at ./jerry-core/ecma/base/ecma-helpers.c:238:58 in ecma_get_object_type.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-29489 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2024-29489 is recorded against 1 package.

jerryscript (fixed in 3.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

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CVE-2024-29489 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-476

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2024-03-28

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://gist.github.com/gandalf4a/9826a897ae1e3c8d1c7e71a1ec71d415

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
jerryscript	—	3.0.0

References

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/gandalf4a/9826a897ae1e3c8d1c7e71a1ec71d415

Patch https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/cefd391772529c8a9531d7b3c244d78d38be47c6

Exploit, Issue Tracking https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/5101

Issue Tracking, Patch https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/pull/5129

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/gandalf4a/9826a897ae1e3c8d1c7e71a1ec71d415

Patch https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/commit/cefd391772529c8a9531d7b3c244d78d38be47c6

Exploit, Issue Tracking https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/5101

Issue Tracking, Patch https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/pull/5129

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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