CVE-2019-18874

Aliases:GHSA-qfc5-mcwq-26q8PYSEC-2019-41
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 16
Modified
Published: 12 Nov 2019, 01:30
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 02:02

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.18% LOW
0% probability +0.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Nov 2019, 01:30
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 02:02
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.18%• Percentile: 39%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-415•Double Free

    The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Systems

  • psutil_project•psutil

    ≤ 5.6.5

  • PyPI•psutil

    < 5.6.6

References (16)