VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-9029
There is an out-of-bounds read with a SEGV in the function Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.66%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio (aka MAT File I/O Library) 1.5.13. There is an out-of-bounds read with a SEGV in the function Mat_VarReadNextInfo5() in mat5.c.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.66% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- matio project/matio
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matioExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/matioExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tbeu/matio/issues/103Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.