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CVE-2021-44964

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Description

Use after free in garbage collector and finalizer of lgc.c in Lua interpreter 5.4.0~5.4.3 allows attackers to perform Sandbox Escape via a crafted script file.

References

https://github.com/Lua-Project/lua-5.4.4-sandbox-escape-with-new-vulnerability

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-12/msg00030.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-12/msg00015.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-12/msg00007.html

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-11/msg00186.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-14

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0008

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