CVE-2020-15888

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-15888
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Undergoing Analysis
  • Published Version
  • 2020-07-21T22:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-21T11:39:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-125 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 5.4.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15888
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15888
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:02:47 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 20:05:53 2020-07-21T22:15Z 2020-07-21T22:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 20:05:53 2021-07-21T11:39:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 20:05:53 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-04-17 18:07:41 Analyzed Undergoing Analysis Vulnerability Status updated