CVE-2020-15888
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.2%
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.
How to fix CVE-2020-15888
To remediate CVE-2020-15888, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Bitnami/lua—upgrade to 5.4.1 or later
- Debian/lua5.4—upgrade to 5.4.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-15888 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- >= 5.4.0, < 5.4.1
- from 0, < 5.4.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |