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CVE-2020-23915

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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

Affected products

• Cpp-Peglib Project Cpp-Peglib: through 0.1.12

References

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/126.html
• https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib/commit/b3b29ce8f3acf3a32733d930105a17d7b0ba347e
• https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib/issues/122
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/126.html
• https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib/commit/b3b29ce8f3acf3a32733d930105a17d7b0ba347e
• https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib/issues/122

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