CVE-2019-18604 describes a critical vulnerability in axohelp.c, a component of axodraw2, where mishandling of the sprintf function can lead to severe consequences. This flaw affects axodraw2 and axohelp.c, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability allows for unauthenticated, low-complexity network attacks that can result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The FAUCET Risk Score of 92/100 further emphasizes its high severity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite the lack of exploit intelligence, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:axohelp.c_project:axohelp.c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:axodraw2_project:axodraw2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.