CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-14853
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-391, CWE-755
Description
An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or no exceptions at all), which could lead to a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• python-ecdsa project python-ecdsa (< 0.13.3)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14853 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.13.3 Release Notes
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/33 seclists.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4588 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14853 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.13.3 Release Notes
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/33 seclists.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4588 www.debian.org