CVE-2019-5010

Summary

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aPythonPython.org CPython 2.7.11 Python.org CPython 3.6.6 Python.org CPython 3.5.2 Python.org CPython 3 master at 480833808e918a1dcebbbcfd07d5a8de3c5c2a66affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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