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CVE-2019-5481

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-5481 is a critical double-free vulnerability impacting cURL versions 7.52.0 to 7.65.3, specifically within its FTP-kerberos code, affecting products from vendors like Debian, Fedora, and Oracle. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.52.0, <= 7.65.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:cloud_backup:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0727 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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 (30)

hikvisionpatch availablevia llm_extracted
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-73.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-brotli-0:1.0.6-9.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.64.1-21.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-41.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-jansson-0:2.11-24.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.12-13.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.11.3-8.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.46-26.redhat_1.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-10.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-20.GA.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.39.2-10.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1c-4.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-73.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-54.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-brotli-0:1.0.6-9.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.64.1-21.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-41.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-jansson-0:2.11-24.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.12-13.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.11.3-8.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.46-26.redhat_1.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-10.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-20.GA.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.39.2-10.jbcs.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1c-4.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: curl-0:7.61.1-12.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-54.jbcs.el6
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: httpd24-curl

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2019-5481Moderate

curl: double free due to subsequent call of realloc()

Sep 11, 2019
hikvisionllm-hikvision-787548be66f066feMEDIUM

FTP-KRB double free

Sep 11, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00048.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00055.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
curl.haxx.se / docs/CVE-2019-5481.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CI4QQ2RSZX4VCFM76SIWGKY6BY7UWIC
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGDVKSLY5JUNJRLYRUA6CXGQ2LM63XC3
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UA7KDM2WPM5CJDDGOEGFV6SSGD2J7RNT
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Feb/36
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-29
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191004-0003
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4633
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory