🛡️ GHSA-64x7-m7rh-9m83 — microlight (CVE-2025-45525)
Description
Withdrawn Advisory: microlight.js has a null pointer dereference vulnerability
Withdrawn Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because a website owner has to set CSS color values. The proof of concept doesn't demonstrate how a malicious user who is not the website owner can cause an application crash. This link has been maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in microlight.js (version 0.0.7), a lightweight syntax highlighting library. When processing elements with non-standard CSS color values, the library fails to validate the result of a regular expression match before accessing its properties, leading to an uncaught TypeError and potential application crash.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.
Weakness class
GHSA-64x7-m7rh-9m83 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.
Affected software
GHSA-64x7-m7rh-9m83 is recorded against 1 package.
- microlight
Timeline and source
Published on 17 June 2025 and last revised on 20 June 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
gist.github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
Details
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| microlight | — | — |
References
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