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high 7.8

CVE-2018-11595 json

Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-3620

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • espruino espruino 1.99

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Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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