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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-6459 json

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8.

published 2019-01-16 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16019

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_extract_type in rec-utils.c in librec.a.

Patch / fix

  • recutils Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • recutils Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.7-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • recutils Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.8-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
  • recutils Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 1.8-1ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6459

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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-2019-6459 updated cvss 4.3

recutils: Multiple security issues

  • 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

1.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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