What is CVE-2019-18601?

CVE-2019-18601 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2019-18601?

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

Deserialization in Openafs

CVE-2019-18601

OpenAFS before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 is prone to denial of service from unserialized data access because remote attackers can make a series of VOTE_Debug RPC calls to crash a database server within the SVOTE_Debug RPC handler.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.014 (69.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Openafs
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-18601?: CVE-2019-18601 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2019-18601?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.