CVE-2019-5066 CRITICAL

CVE-2019-5066

Vendor Talos
Product Aspose
Weakness CWE-416
Published September 18, 2019
Last update August 4, 2024
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CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the way LZW-compressed streams are processed in Aspose.PDF 19.2 for C++. A specially crafted PDF can cause a dangling heap pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition. To trigger this vulnerability, a specifically crafted PDF document needs to be processed by the target application.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 18, 2019 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated