CVE detail

CVE-2019-5010 — CVE-2019-5010

Published 2019-10-31 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor python · Product python · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.2074

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

97.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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