CVE-2026-110260

medium

Description

OW2 ASM 3.0 before 9.11 contains a quadratic memory allocation vulnerability in MethodWriter.computeMaxStackAndLocal() and computeAllFrames() when using COMPUTE_MAXS or COMPUTE_FRAMES. Attackers can supply a crafted class file with thousands of overlapping exception handlers, causing excessive Edge allocations and an OutOfMemoryError that crashes the JVM.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ow2-asm-3.0-before-9.11-quadratic-memory-allocation-via-exception-handlers

https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/merge_requests/461

https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/commit/91057c98239d994aed5e46434e34e00d593c0daf

https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/blob/ASM_9_10_1/asm/src/main/java/org/objectweb/asm/MethodWriter.java#L1662

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-101214

https://asm.ow2.io/versions.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00172