What is CVE-2019-5601?

CVE-2019-5601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2019-5601?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Freebsd

CVE-2019-5601

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r347474, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.2-STABLE before r347475, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the FFS implementation causes up to three bytes of kernel stack memory to be written to disk as uninitialized directory entry padding.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.016 (72.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions FreeBSD 12.0 before 12.0-RELEASE-p7 and 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, 12.0, 11.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secteam@freebsd.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
secteam@freebsd.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-5601?: CVE-2019-5601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-5601?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.