Critical
Security advisory
njs through 0.7.1, used in NGINX, was discovered to contain a control flow hijack caused by a Type Confusion vulnerability in njs_promise_perform_then().
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-46463
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
njs through 0.7.1, used in NGINX, was discovered to contain a control flow hijack caused by a Type Confusion vulnerability in njs_promise_perform_then().
osv:CVE-2021-46463
Complete source record
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