CVE-2026-110258: medium-severity vulnerability in OW2 ASM
OW2 ASM 3.0 before 9.11 Excessive Memory Allocation via Multiple RET Instructions
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.2%
OW2 ASM 3.0 before 9.11 contains an excessive memory allocation vulnerability in Label.addSubroutineRetSuccessors() that fails to enforce the single-RET-per-JSR rule. Attackers can supply a crafted invalid class file with multiple RET instructions for one JSR, triggering a roughly 2 GB allocation that crashes the JVM.
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
Affected products
OW2 · ASMRelated CVEs — OW2 ASM
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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References
https://asm.ow2.io/versions.htmlhttps://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/blob/ASM_9_10_1/asm/src/main/java/org/objectweb/asm/Label.java#L568https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/commit/4dabfe0aef14f8cccb0617640a4add8fbcc4ed36https://gitlab.ow2.org/asm/asm/-/merge_requests/458https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ow2-asm-3.0-before-9.11-excessive-memory-allocation-via-multiple-ret-instructions