High severity · published May 28, 2019
CVE-2019-5436
A heap buffer overflow in the TFTP receiving code allows for DoS or arbitrary code execution in libcurl versions 7.19.4 through 7.64.1
7.8
CVSS
49.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A heap buffer overflow in the TFTP receiving code allows for DoS or arbitrary code execution in libcurl versions 7.19.4 through 7.64.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)49.7% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CU
curl · curl
Fixed in 7.65.0 · source: vendor
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
EM
Enterprise Manager Ops Center · Oracle
12.3.3; 12.4.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
29 · source: NVD
HM
Hci Management Node · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0; 15.1; 42.3 · source: NVD
LI
Libcurl · Haxx
7.19.4 through 7.64.1 · source: NVD
MS
Mysql Server · Oracle
through 5.7.27; 5.7.28 through 8.0.17 · source: NVD
OS
Oss Support Tools · Oracle
20.0 · source: NVD
SO
Solidfire · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
SC
Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
TS
Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller · F5
5.0.0 through 5.1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5436
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5436
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00008.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00017.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/11/6
Exploit
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-5436.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SMG3V4VTX2SE3EW3HQTN3DDLQBTORQC2/
Mailing List
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/36
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