CVE-2019-15961

medium

Description

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46

https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.html

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-15

Updated: 2022-10-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium