Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

mandiant/capa

              master @ f850024
            

Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

100.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Denial of Service: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

capa/loader.py: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Denial of Service: Attackers can exploit lack of size validation on PE sections to trigger excessive allocation and CPU loop hangs during vivisect workspace initialization. This allows malicious binaries to exhaust system resources and deny service.