Medium severity · published Jul 3, 2019
CVE-2019-5601
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r347474, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.2-STABLE before r347475, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the FFS implementation…
6.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r347474, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.2-STABLE before r347475, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the FFS implementation causes up to three bytes of kernel stack memory to be written to disk as uninitialized directory entry padding.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Freebsd · Freebsd
11.2; 11.2; 11.2; 11.2; 11.2; 11.2; +11 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5601
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5601
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153523/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-10.ufs.html
Vendor Advisory
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
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