What is CVE-2019-18603?

CVE-2019-18603 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2019-18603?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Openafs

CVE-2019-18603

OpenAFS before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.5 is prone to information leakage upon certain error conditions because uninitialized RPC output variables are sent over the network to a peer.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Openafs
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-18603?: CVE-2019-18603 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2019-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2019-18603?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.