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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2019-1010127 json

VCFTools vcftools prior to version 0.1.15 is affected by: Use-after-free.

published 2019-07-25 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1873

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

VCFTools vcftools prior to version 0.1.15 is affected by: Use-after-free. The impact is: Denial of Service or possibly other impact (eg. code execution or information disclosure). The component is: The header::add_FILTER_descriptor method in header.cpp. The attack vector is: The victim must open a specially crafted VCF file.

Patch / fix

  • vcftools_project vcftools 0.1.15
  • vcftools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.1.16-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010127

  • vcftools Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.1.11+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • vcftools Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.1.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010127

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2019-1010127 updated cvss 3.3

vcftools: use-after-free in header::add_FILTER_descriptor method in header.cpp causing denial of service

  • 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

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • docs.google.com https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQJveVcGMp_NMdBY5Je2K2k63RoCYznvKjJk5u1wJRmLotvwQkG5qiqZjpABcOkjzj49wkwGweiFwrc/pub referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • VCFTools vcftools

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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