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CVE-2019-19333

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-19333 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in libyang versions prior to 1.0-r5, affecting products like CESNET and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw arises when parsing untrusted YANG files containing a leaf of type "bits." With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to achieve denial of service or potentially remote code execution with low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cesnet:libyang:0.11:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cesnet:libyang:0.11:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cesnet:libyang:0.12:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cesnet:libyang:0.12:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cesnet:libyang:0.13:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0364 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libyang-0:0.16.105-3.el8_1.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-19333Important

libyang: stack-based buffer overflow in make_canonical when bits leaf type is used

Dec 5, 2019

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:4360
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / CESNET/libyang/commit/f6d684ade99dd37b21babaa8a856f64faa1e2e0d
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PETB6TVMFV5KUD4IKVP2JPLBCYHUGSAJ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RL54JMS7XW7PI6JC4BFSNNLSX5AINQUL