Libsass
CVE-2018-11694
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Null pointer safety, defensive checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Check pointers before dereferencing. Use static analysis tools to detect null pointer paths.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476), which allows attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer. An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. A NULL pointer dereference was found in the function Sass::Functions::selector_append which could be leveraged by an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. Affected products include: Sass-Lang Libsass. Version information: through 3.5.4..
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. A NULL pointer dereference was found in the function Sass::Functions::selector_append which could be leveraged by an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
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Attack Technique
A null pointer dereference occurs when a program attempts to access memory through a pointer that has been set to NULL (address 0x0).
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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 8.1), 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 a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. Rated
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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