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CVE-2020-15888

high

Description

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

References

https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5

https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-21

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01223