What is CVE-2019-12790?

CVE-2019-12790 is a high-severity vulnerability in Radare Radare2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-06-10.

How severe is CVE-2019-12790?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Radare Radare2

CVE-2019-12790

In radare2 through 3.5.1, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the r_egg_lang_parsechar function of egg_lang.c. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of missing length validation in libr/egg/egg.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (74.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Radare Radare2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12790?: CVE-2019-12790 is a high-severity vulnerability in Radare Radare2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-06-10.
How severe is CVE-2019-12790?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.