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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-62494"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-16T15:51:50.977Z"
updatedAt: "2025-10-16T17:46:39.174Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:39.058Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-62494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-62494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62494"
title: "Type confusion in string addition in QuickJS"
summary: "A type confusion vulnerability exists in the handling of the string addition (+) operation within the QuickJS engine.\n\n  *  The code first checks if the left-hand operand is a string.\n\n\n  *  It then attempts to convert the right-hand operand to a primitive value using JS_ToPrimitiveFree. This conversion can trigger a callback (e.g., toString or valueOf).\n\n\n  *  During this callback, an attacker can modify the type of the left-hand operand in memory, changing it from a string to a different type (e.g., an object or an array).\n\n\n  *  The code then proceeds to call JS_ConcatStringInPlace, which still treats the modified left-hand value as a string.\n\n\nThis mismatch between the assumed type (string) and the actual type allows an attacker to control the data structure being processed by the concatenation logic, resulting in a type confusion condition. This can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, potentially resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution in the context of the QuickJS runtime."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2025-04-26","status":"affected","versionType":"date","lessThan":"2025-09-13"}],"vendor":"QuickJS","product":"QuickJS","packageName":"JS_ConcatStringInPlace","collectionURL":"https://bellard.org/quickjs/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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