Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28805

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 08 April 2022

Published
08 April 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.2th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28805 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

singlevar in lparser.c in Lua from (including) 5.4.0 up to (excluding) 5.4.4 lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

lua
lua
5.4.0 — 5.4.5
fedoraproject
fedora
35, 36

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References