CVE-2019-5010High· 7.5▾ MidnightPoC availableAn exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An att…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 41.3 · likelihood 4.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 7.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
21%
1 GitHub repo (last check)
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
python >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.16python >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.10python >= 3.5.0, < 3.5.7python >= 3.6.0, < 3.6.9python >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3leap = 15.1debian_linux = 9.0enterprise_linux = 8.0enterprise_linux_eus = 8.1enterprise_linux_eus = 8.2enterprise_linux_eus = 8.4enterprise_linux_eus = 8.6enterprise_linux_server_aus = 8.2enterprise_linux_server_aus = 8.4enterprise_linux_server_aus = 8.6enterprise_linux_server_tus = 8.2enterprise_linux_server_tus = 8.4enterprise_linux_server_tus = 8.6Upgrade past the affected range:
python 3.7.3Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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