CVE-2019-5010
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 5.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-5010
To remediate CVE-2019-5010, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/python2—upgrade to 2.7.15-r3 or later
- —upgrade to 3.6.8-r1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.6.8-r1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.7.15-6 or later
Is CVE-2019-5010 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 5.4%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 2.7.15-r3
- from 0, < 3.6.8-r1
- from 0, < 3.6.8-r1
- from 0, < 2.7.15-6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |