CVE-2019-11640
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.20%
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function rec_fex_parse_str_simple at rec-fex.c in librec.a.
How to fix CVE-2019-11640
No fixed version has been published yet. Mitigate by removing the affected package or applying upstream guidance from the references below.
- Debian/recutils—no fix listed
Is CVE-2019-11640 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |