THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-1010238
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-1010238

Pango vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
6.3%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.
Affected vendor
Gnome
Affected product
Pango
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-07-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-1010238

  • Confirm whether Gnome Pango is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-1010238.
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