What is CVE-2018-11597?

CVE-2018-11597 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Espruino, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-11597?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Espruino

CVE-2018-11597

Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing because of a missing check for stack exhaustion with many '{' characters in jsparse.c.

EPSS: 0.008 (53.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Espruino
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11597?: CVE-2018-11597 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Espruino, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-11597?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.