CVE-2018-11595

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10bPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10bPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 31, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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