Critical severity · published Jul 16, 2019
CVE-2019-1010060
NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow
9.8
CVSS
7.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: arbitrary code execution. The component is: over 40 source code files were changed. The attack vector is: remote unauthenticated attacker. The fixed version is: 3.43. NOTE: this CVE refers to the issues not covered by CVE-2018-3846, CVE-2018-3847, CVE-2018-3848, and CVE-2018-3849. One example is ftp_status in drvrnet.c mishandling a long string beginning with a '4' character.
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)7.2% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CF
Cfitsio · Nasa
before 3.43 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1010060
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1010060
Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274
Third Party Advisory
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gz
Third Party Advisory
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gz
Third Party Advisory
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt
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