CVE-2020-15888
HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 21, 2020 at 09:36 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:57 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLua
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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.htmlx_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125CWE-416CWE-787
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