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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-1010060

NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.17%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: arbitrary code execution. The component is: over 40 source code files were changed. The attack vector is: remote unauthenticated attacker. The fixed version is: 3.43. NOTE: this CVE refers to the issues not covered by CVE-2018-3846, CVE-2018-3847, CVE-2018-3848, and CVE-2018-3849. One example is ftp_status in drvrnet.c mishandling a long string beginning with a '4' character.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
7.17% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
nasa/cfitsio
Source
josh@bress.net

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.