What is CVE-2019-1000012?

CVE-2019-1000012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hex, classified under Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-02-04.

How severe is CVE-2019-1000012?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hex

CVE-2019-1000012

Hex package manager version 0.14.0 through 0.18.2 contains a Signing oracle vulnerability in Package registry verification that can result in Package modifications not detected, allowing code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via victim fetches packages from malicious/compromised mirror. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.19.

EPSS: 0.009 (55.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hex
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-345 — Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-1000012?: CVE-2019-1000012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hex, classified under Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-02-04.
How severe is CVE-2019-1000012?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.