High severity · published May 1, 2019
CVE-2019-11639
An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function rec_type_check_enum at rec-types.c in librec.a.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RE
Recutils · Gnu
1.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11639
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11639
Exploit
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils/bug-report-recutils/recfix
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