What is CVE-2018-11593?

CVE-2018-11593 is a high-severity vulnerability in Espruino, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2018-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-11593?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Espruino

CVE-2018-11593

Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and potential Information Disclosure with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing because strncpy is misused in jslex.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (65.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Espruino
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11593?: CVE-2018-11593 is a high-severity vulnerability in Espruino, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-11593?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.