CVSS 3.1
9.1 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-28805
Critical (9.1). EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- 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