Out-of-Bounds Affecting hercules-team/augeas package, versions [0,1.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.77% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HERCULESTEAMAUGEAS-2365914
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-7555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hercules-team/augeas to version 1.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.

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