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CVE-2018-20821

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

The parsing component in LibSass through 3.5.5 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (uncontrolled recursion in Sass::Parser::parse_css_variable_value in parser.cpp).

Affected products

• Sass-Lang Libsass: through 3.5.5

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00047.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00027.html
• https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/2658
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00047.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00027.html
• https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/2658

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