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CVE-2019-16748

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 1.15% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-09-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links

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CVE
CVE-2019-16748
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
1.15%

Original NVD Description

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

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