Vulnerability CVE-2020-1898


Published: 2021-03-11

Description:
The fb_unserialize function did not impose a depth limit for nested deserialization. That meant a maliciously constructed string could cause deserialization to recurse, leading to stack exhaustion. This issue affected HHVM prior to v4.32.3, between versions 4.33.0 and 4.56.0, 4.57.0, 4.58.0, 4.58.1, 4.59.0, 4.60.0, 4.61.0, 4.62.0.

Type:

CWE-674

(Uncontrolled Recursion)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Facebook -> HHVM 

 References:
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/1746dfb11fc0048366f34669e74318b8278a684c
https://hhvm.com/blog/2020/06/30/security-update.html

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