CVE-2021-45985 (GCVE-0-2021-45985)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-10 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-12 16:02
VLAI
Summary
In Lua 5.4.3, an erroneous finalizer called during a tail call leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-12 16:01 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
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