CVE-2020-23915

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23915
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-23915.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-23915
Downstream
Published
2021-04-21T18:15:08.270Z
Modified
2025-11-20T11:21:32.899559Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in cpp-peglib through v0.1.12. peg::resolveescapesequence() in peglib.h has a heap-based buffer over-read.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
b3b29ce8f3acf3a32733d930105a17d7b0ba347e

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.10
v0.1.11
v0.1.12
v0.1.2
v0.1.3
v0.1.4
v0.1.5
v0.1.6
v0.1.7
v0.1.8
v0.1.9

Database specific

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