Code injection in The Battle for Wesnoth - CVE-2018-1999023
Published: July 25, 2018 / Updated: July 26, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14013
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1999023
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a code injection in the Lua scripting engine. A remote unauthenticated attacker can load a specially crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and player content to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
The Battle for Wesnoth
Arch Linux
Fedora
wesnoth
Arch Linux
Fedora
wesnoth
How to mitigate CVE-2018-1999023
Update to version 1.14.4.
The Battle for Wesnoth - update to 1.14.4
wesnoth - addressed in versions 1.14.4-1.fc27, 1.14.4-1.fc28
wesnoth - addressed in versions 1.14.4-1.fc27, 1.14.4-1.fc28