Libsass
CVE-2017-11554
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Recursion depth limits
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.56%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-674. There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service. Affected products include: Libsass.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
An issue was discovered in LibSass <3.5.3. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, n
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
There is an illegal address access in ast.cpp of LibSass 3.4.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is re
There is a heap based buffer over-read in lexer.hpp of LibSass 3.4.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability
There is an illegal address access in the Eval::operator function in eval.cpp in LibSass 3.4.5. Rated high severity (CVS
There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the Parser::advanceToNextToken function in parser.cpp in LibSass 3.4.5. Ra
LibSass before 3.6.3 allows a NULL pointer dereference in Sass::Parser::parseCompoundSelector in parser_selectors.cpp. R
LibSass before 3.6.3 allows a heap-based buffer over-read in Sass::weaveParents in ast_sel_weave.cpp. Rated medium sever
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