CVE-2018-12115

high

Description

In all versions of Node.js prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4 and 10.9.0 when used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by Node.js under the names `'ucs2'`, `'ucs-2'`, `'utf16le'` and `'utf-16le'`), `Buffer#write()` can be abused to write outside of the bounds of a single `Buffer`. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2018-security-releases/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3537

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2949

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2944

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2553

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2552

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105127

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-21

Updated: 2020-03-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High