CVE-2018-19838

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Published Dec 4, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.9% KEV · Not listed

Description

In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENT_AST_OPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as demonstrated by recursive calls involving clone(), cloneChildren(), and copy().

Affected Products

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sass-lang:libsass:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-11513	In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENT_AST_OPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as demonstrated by recursive calls involving clone(), cloneChildren(), and copy().

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 1.9% (1.928% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00051.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00027.html
https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/2660

History

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Subscriptions

Sass-lang Libsass

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 5, 2024, 11:44 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Dec 4, 2018, 9:00 AM
Updated: Aug 5, 2024, 11:44 AM
Reserved: Dec 3, 2018, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 17, 2026, 1:49 AM

Status: Modified
Published: Dec 4, 2018, 9:29 AM
Modified: Jun 17, 2026, 1:49 AM

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