Vulnerability CVE-2018-11595
Published: 2018-05-31

Description:
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing, because strncat is misused.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial

 References:
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425
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