Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Mcrouter by Facebook
CVE-2019-11923

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Facebook

Status
Mcrouter
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 December 2019

What is CVE-2019-11923?

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Mcrouter versions before v0.41.0 due to the deprecated ASCII parser allowing user-specified buffer allocation without a maximum limit. This can result in resource exhaustion, potentially causing a denial of service. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this risk.

Affected Version(s)

Mcrouter 0.41.0

Mcrouter < 0.41.0

References

https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11923
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https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/releases/tag/v0.41.0...
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https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/commit/98ce6624cd256...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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