Espruino
CVE-2018-11595
HIGH
Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionNVD
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing, because strncat is misused.
AnalysisAI
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing, because strncat is misused. Affected products include: Espruino. Version information: before 1.99.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.
Espruino 2v11 release was discovered to contain a stack buffer overflow via src/jsvar.c in jsvGetNextSibling. Rated high
Espruino 2v11.251 was discovered to contain a stack buffer overflow via src/jsvar.c in jsvNewFromString. Rated high seve
There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the jsfNameFromString function of jsflash.c in Espruino 2V00, leading to a de
Espruino 2v20 (commit fcc9ba4) was discovered to contain an Out-of-bounds Read via jsvStringIteratorPrintfCallback at sr
Espruino 2v20 (commit fcc9ba4) was discovered to contain a Stack Overflow via the jspeFactorFunctionCall at src/jsparse.
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Information Discl
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and potential Information Disclos
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file vi
Espruino before 1.98 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file vi
Espruino before 1.98 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file vi
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file vi
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file vi
Same weakness CWE-119 – Buffer Overflow
View allSame technique Denial Of Service
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