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Out-of-bounds Read

CVE-2018-11697

Severity High
Score 8.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.5. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function "Sass::Prelexer::exactly()" which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a Denial of Service.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-125 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Out-of-bounds read is a vulnerability that allows access to memory beyond the authorized accessible location. Such a vulnerability compromises the confidentiality of the trusted environment in the application and enables an attacker to launch further attacks by leveraging the exposed information.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published