Uncontrolled Recursion in LibSass - CVE-2019-18797
Published: November 6, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30654
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18797
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Sass
Affected software:
LibSass
LibSass
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
LibSass 3.6.1 has uncontrolled recursion in Sass::Eval::operator()(Sass::Binary_Expression*) in eval.cpp.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-18797
Install update from vendor's website.