Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5010

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-10-31 20:05:57
Last updated 2024-08-04 19:40:49
Assigner talos
CVSS score 5.9
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.