{"id":"CVE-2019-15544","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-15544","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:54:15.849Z","title":"Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.","description":"An issue was discovered in the protobuf crate before 2.6.0 for Rust. Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.","published":"2019-08-26T18:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:20:36.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["rust-protobuf project/rust-protobuf","apache/hbase"],"epss":{"score":0.03764,"percentile":0.8985,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0003.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0003.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15544","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}