CVE-2019-15961 Information

Description

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely resulting in a denial of service condition.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.html https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5