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CVE-2020-24342

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-24342 is a stack redzone cross vulnerability in Lua versions up to 5.4.0, affecting products such as Fedora and Lua itself. This flaw occurs because a protection mechanism incorrectly invokes luaD_callnoyield twice. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction for local exploitation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19666-17084Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17074-16820Fixed in: 5.3.5-8
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ceph 18.2.2-8 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 lua 5.3.5-8 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 5.3.5-8
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 5.3.5-8
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 5.3.5-8

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2020-Sep/CVE-2020-24342

CVE-2020-24342

Sep 8, 2020
microsoft2020-Aug/CVE-2020-24342Important

Lua through 5.4.0 allows a stack redzone cross in luaO_pushvfstring because a protection mechanism wrongly calls luaD_callnoyield twice in a row.

Aug 11, 2020
redhatCVE-2020-24342Moderate

lua: buffer overflow in luaO_pushvfstring

Jul 6, 2020

References

lua-users.org / lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00052.html
ExploitMailing ListVendor Advisory
github.com / lua/lua/commit/34affe7a63fc5d842580a9f23616d057e17dfe27
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QA5Q5MDQMTGXRQO3PAQ4EZFTYWJXZM5N