7.5
HIGH
CVE-2019-20454
PCRE Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
Description

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE before 10.34 when the pattern \X is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF mode. Applications that use PCRE to parse untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to crash the application. The flaw occurs in do_extuni_no_utf in pcre2_jit_compile.c.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:38 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-20454 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Splunk universal_forwarder
1 Pcre pcre2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-20454.

URL Resource
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78338 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16 Third Party Advisory
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 Broken Link Patch
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78338 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16 Third Party Advisory
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 Broken Link Patch

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-20454 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-20454 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421
    Added Reference https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78338
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16
    Added Reference https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 27, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.2.0 up to (excluding) 8.2.12 *cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.0.0 up to (excluding) 9.0.6 *cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 16, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 27, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 Issue Tracking, Patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 Patch https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 Broken Link, Patch
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 09, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQRAHYHLRNMBTPR3KXVM27NSZP3KTOPI/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-16 [No Types Assigned]
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 26, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.34 OR *cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 10.31 up to (excluding) 10.34
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 25, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 No Types Assigned https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78338 No Types Assigned https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78338 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735494 Issue Tracking, Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 No Types Assigned https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1092 Patch
    Added CWE NIST CWE-125
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.34
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-20454 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-20454 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.14 }} -0.01%

score

0.49995

percentile

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