CVE-2021-44964 (GCVE-0-2021-44964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-14 14:24 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:32
VLAI
Summary
Use after free in garbage collector and finalizer of lgc.c in Lua interpreter 5.4.0~5.4.3 allows attackers to perform Sandbox Escape via a crafted script file.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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