🛡️ CVE-2020-15888 — lua

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

Affected software

CVE-2020-15888 is recorded against 1 package.

  • lua

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 3 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

lua-users.org (Web)
lua-users.org (Web)
lua-users.org (Web)
lua-users.org (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-04-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
lua — —

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