Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5380

Title: Google V8 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5380.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jul 09, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.62%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5380: The Utf8DecoderBase::WriteUtf16Slow function in unicode-decoder.cc in Google V8, as used in Node.js before 0.12.6, io.js before 1.8.3 and 2.x before 2.3.3, and other products, does not verify that there is memory available for a UTF-16 surrogate pair, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted byte sequence.

Impacted Vendors

N
nodejs 1
J
joyent 1
I
iojs 1
G
google 1

Reference Links

http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/07/03/node-v0-12-6-stable/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75556 https://codereview.chromium.org/1226493003 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/25583 https://medium.com/%40iojs/important-security-upgrades-for-node-js-and-io-js-8ac14ece5852 http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/07/03/node-v0-12-6-stable/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75556 https://codereview.chromium.org/1226493003 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/25583 https://medium.com/%40iojs/important-security-upgrades-for-node-js-and-io-js-8ac14ece5852
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5380 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.