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CVE-2019-11873

CRITICALEPSS 95th pctl
9.8
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

wolfSSL 4.0.0 has a Buffer Overflow in DoPreSharedKeys in tls13.c when a current identity size is greater than a client identity size. An attacker sends a crafted hello client packet over the network to a TLSv1.3 wolfSSL server. The length fields of the packet: record length, client hello length, total extensions length, PSK extension length, total identity length, and identity length contain their maximum value which is 2^16. The identity data field of the PSK extension of the packet contains the attack data, to be stored in the undefined memory (RAM) of the server. The size of the data is about 65 kB. Possibly the attacker can perform a remote code execution attack.

How to fix

Remediation Available
wolfsslDebian
Fixed in:4.1.0+dfsg-1CVE-2019-11873
Fixed in:4.1.0+dfsg-1CVE-2019-11873
Fixed in:4.1.0+dfsg-1CVE-2019-11873
Fixed in:4.1.0+dfsg-1CVE-2019-11873

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

8.78%probability of exploitation in 30 days
95thpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.

References

Third-Party Advisory1
Other references1

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