Name: CVE-2019-14853: Unchecked Error Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-14853, CWE-391, CWE-755, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00068

An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or no exceptions at all), which could lead to a denial of service.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 3.7
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade py3-ecdsa	Aug 22, 2024	Nov 26, 2019
Amazon_linux	—	Upgrade python-ecdsa	Aug 9, 2023	Nov 4, 2019
Debian	—	Upgrade python-ecdsa	Nov 1, 2019	Nov 1, 2019
Freebsd	—	Upgrade py27-ecdsaUpgrade py37-ecdsa	Aug 17, 2020	Aug 16, 2020
Suse	—	Upgrade python2-ecdsaUpgrade python-ecdsaUpgrade python3-ecdsa	Nov 12, 2019	Nov 4, 2019
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade python-ecdsaUpgrade python3-ecdsa	Nov 19, 2019	Nov 4, 2019

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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