Critical severity · published Nov 12, 2018
CVE-2018-19198
An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.0
9.8
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.0. UriQuery.c allows an out-of-bounds write via a uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function because the '&' character is mishandled in certain contexts.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
UR
Uriparser · Uriparser Project
before 0.9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19198
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19198
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2280
Release Notes
https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser/blob/uriparser-0.9.0/ChangeLog
Patch
https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser/commit/864f5d4c127def386dd5cc926ad96934b297f04e
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00019.html
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