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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-10053 json

An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.x before 4.1.4.

published 2019-05-13 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-2116

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.x before 4.1.4. If the input of the function SSHParseBanner is composed only of a \n character, then the program runs into a heap-based buffer over-read. This occurs because the erroneous search for \r results in an integer underflow.

Patch / fix

  • suricata-ids suricata 4.1.4
  • suricata Debian 14, Debian 13 1:4.1.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10053

  • suricata openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15394-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-10053 updated cvss 4.3

suricata: heap-based buffer over-read in function SSHParseBanner

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

References

Sources

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