What is CVE-2019-15541?

CVE-2019-15541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Rustls Project, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2019-15541?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Rustls Project

CVE-2019-15541

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

EPSS: 0.022 (81.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Rustls_project Rustls
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15541?: CVE-2019-15541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Rustls Project, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2019-15541?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.