CVE-2020-15888

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125 CWE-416 CWE-787

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 21, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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