CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5254

8.1 HIGH Published 2020-03-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.9 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-125

Description

In NetHack before 3.6.6, some out-of-bound values for the hilite_status option can be exploited. NetHack 3.6.6 resolves this issue.

Affected configurations

• nethack nethack (>= 3.6.1 < 3.6.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References