CVE-2019-16163

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 09 Sept 2019, 15:38
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 01:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.21% LOW
0% probability +0.13%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Sept 2019, 15:38
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 01:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Oniguruma before 6.9.3 allows Stack Exhaustion in regcomp.c because of recursion in regparse.c.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0MEDIUMScore: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.21% Percentile: 44%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-674Uncontrolled Recursion

    The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

  • canonicalubuntu_linux

    14.04

  • debiandebian_linux

    8.0

  • fedoraprojectfedora

    29 | 30

  • oniguruma_projectoniguruma

    < 6.9.3

References (7)