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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2019-20397 json

A double-free is present in libyang before v1.0-r1 in the function yyparse() when an organization field is not terminated.

published 2020-01-22 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-10947

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A double-free is present in libyang before v1.0-r1 in the function yyparse() when an organization field is not terminated. Applications that use libyang to parse untrusted input yang files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would cause a crash or potentially code execution.

Patch / fix

  • libyang Debian 14, Debian 13 1.0.176-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20397

  • libyang RHEL 8 1.0.184-1.el8

red hat advisories RHEA-2021:1906

  • libyang AlmaLinux 8 1.0.184-1.el8

almalinux advisories ALEA-2021:1906

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-2019-20397 updated cvss 7.0

libyang: double-free in yyparse() when organization field is not terminated

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) libyang 1.0.184-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2021:1906

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

2.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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