CVE-2019-5010
HIGH7.5EPSS 5.4%Published: 10/31/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/python2from 0, < 2.7.15-r3
- Alpine/python3from 0, < 3.6.8-r1
- Alpine/python3-tkinterfrom 0, < 3.6.8-r1
- Debian/python2.7from 0, < 2.7.15-6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |