High severity · published Nov 23, 2018
CVE-2018-19490
An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5
7.8
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a heap-based buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in df_generate_ascii_array_entry. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must pass an overlong string as the right bound of the range argument that is passed to the plot function.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% 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
GN
Gnuplot · Gnuplot
5.2.5 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19490
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19490
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
Exploit
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/
Patch
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
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