CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-16214

5.7 MEDIUM Published 2019-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Libra Core before 2019-09-03 has an erroneous regular expression for inline comments, which makes it easier for attackers to interfere with code auditing by using a nonstandard line-break character for a comment. For example, a Move module author can enter the // sequence (which introduces a single-line comment), followed by very brief comment text, the \r character, and code that has security-critical functionality. In many popular environments, this code is displayed on a separate line, and thus a reader may infer that the code is executed. However, the code is NOT executed, because language/compiler/ir_to_bytecode/src/parser.rs allows the comment to continue after the \r character.

Affected configurations

• libra libra core (< 2019-09-03)

References