7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-6706

Published: 23/01/2019 Updated: 23/06/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Lua 5.3.5 has a use-after-free in lua_upvaluejoin in lapi.c. For example, a crash outcome might be achieved by an attacker who is able to trigger a debug.upvaluejoin call in which the arguments have certain relationships.

Vulnerability Trend

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lua lua 5.3.5

canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

canonical ubuntu linux 18.10

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #920321 lua53: CVE-2019-6706 Package: src:lua53; Maintainer for src:lua53 is Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:06:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in versions lua53/533-11, ...
Lua could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted script ...
Synopsis Moderate: lua security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for lua is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score ...
Synopsis Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 461 image security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 46Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability S ...
Lua 535 has a use-after-free in lua_upvaluejoin in lapic For example, a crash outcome might be achieved by an attacker who is able to trigger a debugupvaluejoin call in which the arguments have certain relationships ...

Exploits

# Exploit Title: Lua 535 # Exploit Author: Fady Mohamed Osman (twittercom/fady_othman) # Exploit-db : wwwexploit-dbcom/author/?a=2986 # Blog : blogfadyothmancom/ # Date: Jan 10th 2019 # Vendor Homepage: wwwluaorg/ # Software Link: wwwluaorg/ftp/lua-535targz # Version: 535 # CVE ID: CVE-2019-6 ...
Lua version 535 suffers from a use-after-free vulnerability ...