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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-15544

Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.76%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.76%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in the protobuf crate before 2.6.0 for Rust. Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
3.76% probability · 89th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
rust-protobuf project/rust-protobuf · apache/hbase
Source
cve@mitre.org

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