What is CVE-2019-3972?

CVE-2019-3972 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Comodo Antivirus, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2019-3972?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Comodo Antivirus

CVE-2019-3972

Comodo Antivirus versions 12.0.0.6810 and below are vulnerable to Denial of Service affecting CmdAgent.exe via an unprotected section object "<GUID>_CisSharedMemBuff". This section object is exposed by CmdAgent and contains a SharedMemoryDictionary object, which allows a low privileged process to modify the object data causing CmdAgent.exe to crash.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (31.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Comodo Antivirus
N/a Comodo Antivirus — versions Versions 12.0.0.6810 and below

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

vulnreport@tenable.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-3972?: CVE-2019-3972 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Comodo Antivirus, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2019-3972?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.