7.5
HIGH
CVE-2019-3836
Gnutls Uninitialized Pointer Access Vulnerability
Description

It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages.

INFO

Published Date :

April 1, 2019, 3:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:42 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-3836 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 Opensuse leap
1 Gnu gnutls
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-3836 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-3836 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 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3600
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3836
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3999-1/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

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

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3600 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-456
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 30, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3999-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 10, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/ No Types Assigned https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/ Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 02, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0005/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 15, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-14 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 05, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 02, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704 No Types Assigned https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3836 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3836 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-824
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.6.3 up to (excluding) 3.6.7
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-2019-3836 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

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

0.84 }} -0.90%

score

0.81858

percentile

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