CVE-2019-1010060
NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow.
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
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- nasa/cfitsio
- Source
- josh@bress.net
EPSS 7.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274Third Party Advisory
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gzThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gzThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txtThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274Third Party Advisory
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gzThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gzThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txtThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.