Critical severity · published Jul 31, 2019
CVE-2019-14462
An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5
9.1
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_COILS case, aka VD-1302.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
29; 30 · source: NVD
LI
Libmodbus · Libmodbus
before 3.0.7; 3.1.0 before 3.1.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14462
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14462
Patch
https://github.com/stephane/libmodbus/commit/5ccdf5ef79d742640355d1132fa9e2abc7fbaefc
Release Notes
https://libmodbus.org/2019/stable-and-development-releases/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00020.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HAGHQFJTJCMYHW553OUWJ3YIJR6PJHB7/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PRAQZXGAZY6UGWZ6CD33QEFLL7AWW233/
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