Vulnerability in Virustotal Yara

CVE-2019-5020

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. A specially crafted binary file can cause a negative value to be read to satisfy an assert, resulting in Denial of Service. An attacker can create a malicious binary to trigger this vulnerability.

EPSS: 0.011 (61.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-5020?
CVE-2019-5020 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Virustotal Yara, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2019-5020?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.