Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and a potential Escalation of Privileges with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing, because strncat is misused.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2018-11595 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.4/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.32%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-03-30 | 0.25% | 0.32% | +0.07% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 0.32% | 0.25% | -0.07% |
| 3 | 2025-03-17 | — | 0.32% | — |
Full EPSS history (10 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 3.0 | HIGH |
|
1.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 6.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/commit/0a7619875bf79877907205f6bee08465b89ff10b | Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019210/test_0.txt | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019216/test_2.txt | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/files/2019220/test_4.txt | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/issues/1425 | Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |