Security Advisory

CVE-2024-11991

5.6
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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 Date December 9, 2024
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory