CVE-2018-11595

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    CVE-2018-11595

    Published: 31 May 2018Last Modified: 11 Feb 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt, https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b

    Affected versions

    ESPRUINOBOARD_1v3_SEEED

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High