CVE-2025-66453 (GCVE-0-2025-66453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 19:31 – Updated: 2025-12-03 19:43
VLAI
Title
Rhino vulnerable high CPU usage and potential DoS when passing specific numbers to toFixed() function
Summary
Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. Prior to 1.8.1, 1.7.15.1, and 1.7.14.1, when an application passed an attacker controlled float poing number into the toFixed() function, it might lead to high CPU consumption and a potential Denial of Service. Small numbers go through this call stack: NativeNumber.numTo > DToA.JS_dtostr > DToA.JS_dtoa > DToA.pow5mult where pow5mult attempts to raise 5 to a ridiculous power. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.1, 1.7.15.1, and 1.7.14.1.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-03 19:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7761 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mozilla rhino Affected: >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.1
Affected: >= 1.7.15, < 1.7.15.1
Affected: < 1.7.14.1
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