PT-2018-10694 · Espruino · Espruino

Hongxuchen · Published 2018-05-31 · Updated 2018-06-08 · CVE-2018-11595

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Espruino versions prior to 1.99

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, and potentially escalate privileges. This is achieved by providing a user-crafted input file that exploits a buffer overflow during syntax parsing, due to the misuse of strncat.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.99, update to version 1.99 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-11595

Affected Products

Espruino

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt · Exploit
• https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11595 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11595 · Security Note