{"id":"CVE-2019-18604","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-18604","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:19:54.359Z","title":"In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled.","description":"In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled.","published":"2019-10-29T19:15:20.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:25:09.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["axohelp.c project/axohelp.c","axodraw2 project/axodraw2"],"epss":{"score":0.01875,"percentile":0.79258,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (1.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/9216833a3888a4105a18e8c349f65b045ddb1079#diff-987e40c0e27ee43f6a2414ada73a191a","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00033.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/9216833a3888a4105a18e8c349f65b045ddb1079#diff-987e40c0e27ee43f6a2414ada73a191a","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00033.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18604","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."}