CVE-2019-18840

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 9, 2019 at 12:58 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:25 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorwolfSSL

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In wolfSSL 4.1.0 through 4.2.0c, there are missing sanity checks of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer overflow inside the DecodedCert structure in GetName in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c because the domain name location index is mishandled. Because a pointer is overwritten, there is an invalid free.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.0c

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/2555

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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