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CVE-2019-5010

Published: Oct 31, 2019

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.9

MEDIUM

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

Python

affected
Python.org CPython 2.7.11 Python.org CPython 3.6.6 Python.org CPython 3.5.2 Python.org CPython 3 master at 480833808e918a1dcebbbcfd07d5a8de3c5c2a66

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

RHSA-2019:3520
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2019:3725
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
openSUSE-SU-2020:0086
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
GLSA-202003-26
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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