What is CVE-2019-1010060?

CVE-2019-1010060 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nasa Cfitsio, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-07-16.

How severe is CVE-2019-1010060?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-1010060 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Nasa Cfitsio

CVE-2019-1010060

NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: arbitrary code execution. The component is: over 40 source code files were changed. The attack vector is: remote unauthenticated attacker. The fixed version is: 3.43. NOTE: this CVE refers to the issues not covered by CVE-2018-3846, CVE-2018-3847, CVE-2018-3848, and CVE-2018-3849. One example is ftp_status in drvrnet.c mishandling a long string beginning with a '4' character.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-07-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.072 (94.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.072 · newest: 0.072 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Nasa Cfitsio — versions < 3.43 [fixed: 3.43]

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ANG13T/aerospace-cve-list

References

heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274 (Third Party Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gz (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)
heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gz (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-1010060?: CVE-2019-1010060 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nasa Cfitsio, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-07-16.
How severe is CVE-2019-1010060?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-1010060 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.