CVE-2019-15541 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

Published: 2019-08-26

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:rustls_project:rustls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-6524	rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02233.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ctz/rustls/commit/a93ee1abd2ab19ebe4bf9d684d56637ee54a6074
https://github.com/ctz/rustls/compare/cd66549...17ee52c
https://github.com/ctz/rustls/issues/285

History

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Subscriptions

Rustls Project Rustls

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-08-26T11:49:39.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:49:13.730Z

Reserved: 2019-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-15541

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-26T12:15:11.780

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:20:35.690

Link: CVE-2019-15541

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-88
Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

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