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CVE-2018-21270 (GCVE-0-2018-21270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:26
VLAI
Summary
Versions less than 0.0.6 of the Node.js stringstream module are vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read because of allocation of uninitialized buffers when a number is passed in the input stream (when using Node.js 4.x).
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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