Information disclosure in libxslt - CVE-2019-13118
Published: July 2, 2019 / Updated: October 19, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18966
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13118
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Gnome Development Team
Affected software:
libxslt
libxslt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to uninitialized stack data exposure in numbers.c in libxslt library when processing an invalid character/length combination in xsltNumberFormatDecimal. A remote attacker can gain pass specially crafted data to the application using the affected library and gain access to sensitive information.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13118
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.