Less
5 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Less, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Less CVEs per month
| Month | CVEs |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 0 |
| 2025-05 | 0 |
| 2025-06 | 0 |
| 2025-07 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 0 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 0 |
| 2026-02 | 0 |
| 2026-03 | 0 |
| 2026-04 | 0 |
| 2026-05 | 0 |
| 2026-06 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 |
| 2026-08 | 0 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 5 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- Critical1
- High3
- Medium1
Latest CVEs
The 5 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Less.
- CVE-2024-32487less through 653 allows OS command execution via a newline character in the name of a file, because quoting is mishandled in filename.c. Exploitation typically requires use with attacker-controlled...8.6
- CVE-2022-48624close_altfile in filename.c in less before 606 omits shell_quote calls for LESSCLOSE.7.8
- CVE-2022-46663In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.7.5
- CVE-2014-9488The is_utf8_well_formed function in GNU less before 475 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via malformed UTF-8 characters, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.10.0
- CVE-2004-2264Format string bug in the open_altfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string...6.4
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