CVE-2024-11991
Motoko's incremental garbage collector is impacted by an uninitialized memory access bug, caused by incorrect use of write barriers in a few locations. This vulnerability could potentially allow unauthorized read or write access to a Canister's memory. However, exploiting this bug requires the Canister to enable the incremental garbage collector or enhanced orthogonal persistence, which are non-default features in Motoko.
Published:Dec 9, 2024
Last Modified:Dec 8, 2025
EPS:Dec 9, 2024
EPSS Score:0.00069
CVSS Score:5.6
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Dfinity
Product
Motoko
Dfinity
Motoko
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
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High
