CVE-2022-28805
9.1
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3% (pctl 87)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.1), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
singlevar in lparser.c in Lua from (including) 5.4.0 up to (excluding) 5.4.4 lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 3% — more likely to be exploited than 87% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-125 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2022-04-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| fedoraproject | fedora |
| lua | lua |
References
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/1f3c6f4534c6411313361697d98d1145a1f030fa
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJNJ66IFDUKWJJZXHGOLRGIA3HWWC36R/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHYZOEFDVLVAD6EEP4CDW6DNONIVVHPA/
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00001.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00070.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-04/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/1f3c6f4534c6411313361697d98d1145a1f030fa
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJNJ66IFDUKWJJZXHGOLRGIA3HWWC36R/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHYZOEFDVLVAD6EEP4CDW6DNONIVVHPA/
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00001.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00070.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-04/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
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