CVE-2019-5544

critical-risk
Published 2019-12-06

OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.

Do I need to act?

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92.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 8% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Redhat Vmware Openslp Fedoraproject

References (17)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/10/2
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/11/2
Patch http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0022.html
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4240
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0199
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-12
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/10/2
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/11/2
Patch http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0022.html
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4240
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0199
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Release Notes https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-12
US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-...
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critical-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 27/34 · High
Exposure 33/34 · Critical