CVE-2019-5010 (GCVE-0-2019-5010)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-10-31 20:05
Modified
2026-10-07 18:55
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Python Version: Python.org CPython 2.7.11 Python.org CPython 3.6.6 Python.org CPython 3.5.2 Python.org CPython 3 master at 480833808e918a1dcebbbcfd07d5a8de3c5c2a66
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