CVE-2019-5010
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.9 Medium
- Published
- Oct 31, 2019
- Updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 4, 2019
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | talos |
Weaknesses
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Pythonn/a |
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References
- RHSA-2019:3520vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:3725vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0086vendor-advisory
- GLSA-202003-26vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200715 [SECURITY] [DLA 2280-1] python3.5 security updatemailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20200729 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2387: Security vulnerabilities in the apache/bookkeeper-4.9.2 imagemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200822 [SECURITY] [DLA 2337-1] python2.7 security updatemailing-list
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0758
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