{"id":"CVE-2018-11595","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-11595","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:31:22.323Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-05-31T16:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:36:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["espruino/espruino"],"epss":{"score":0.01298,"percentile":0.70243,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11595","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}