CVE-2019-5010 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3520 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org3E https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00034.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-26 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0758

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5