CVE-2019-20454 MEDIUM

CVE-2019-20454

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Published February 14, 2020
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AC:H/AV:L/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 14, 2020 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated