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CVE-2019-17544

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17544 is a critical stack-based buffer over-read vulnerability in libaspell.a of GNU Aspell versions prior to 0.60.8, affecting products like Canonical Aspell and Ubuntu Linux. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause high impact to confidentiality and availability with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.60.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:aspell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0326 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: aspell
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: aspell

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17544Low

aspell: stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp

Jul 31, 2019

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Third Party Advisory
github.com / GNUAspell/aspell/commit/80fa26c74279fced8d778351cff19d1d8f44fe4e
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / GNUAspell/aspell/compare/rel-0.60.7...rel-0.60.8
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00027.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00021.html
usn.ubuntu.com / 4155-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4155-2
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4948