High

Out-of-bounds Read in Facebook Hermes

  • Disclosed: 24.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

An out-of-bounds read in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or possible further memory corruption via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application using Hermes permits evaluation of untrusted JavaScript. Hence, most React Native applications are not affected.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package hermes-engine < 0.7.2 0.7.2

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125
Platform
npm
Package
hermes-engine
Disclosed
24.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-x4cf-6jr3-3qvp - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: hermes-engine

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
7
First → latest
01.2022 05.2022
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 4
  • High 3

Disclosures per year

  1. 2022: 7
  2. 2023: 0
  3. 2024: 0
  4. 2025: 0
  5. 2026: 0
  1. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-24037 < 0.8.0 0.8.0
  2. Out-of-bounds Read in Facebook Hermes this entry
    High · 7.5 CVE-2020-1915 < 0.7.2 0.7.2
  3. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2020-1914 < 0.7.2 0.7.2
  4. High · 8.1 CVE-2020-1913 < 0.5.2 0.5.2
  5. High · 8.1 CVE-2020-1912 < 0.5.2 0.5.2
  6. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2020-1911 < 0.5.2 0.5.2
  7. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-24044 < 0.10.0 0.10.0

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