VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-17455

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability3.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-10-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM request.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references