Vulnerability in Facebook Zstandard

CVE-2019-11922

A race condition in the one-pass compression functions of Zstandard prior to version 1.3.8 could allow an attacker to write bytes out of bounds if an output buffer smaller than the recommended size was used.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.014 (70.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11922?
CVE-2019-11922 is a high-severity vulnerability in Facebook Zstandard, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2019-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2019-11922?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.