CVE-2019-11371 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-787) in Burrow-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) version 0.7.17 r1198. This flaw, stemming from mishandling of long prefixes in the bns_fasta2bntseq and bns_dump functions, allows for remote code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction or privileges. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.7.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:burrow-wheeler_aligner_project:burrow-wheeler_aligner:0.7.17:r1198:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.