CVE-2019-11371

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.6%

Critical (9.8) in burrow-wheeler aligner project burrow-wheeler aligner. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) 0.7.17 r1198 has a Buffer Overflow via a long prefix that is mishandled in bns_fasta2bntseq and bns_dump at btnseq.c.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2019-04-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

burrow-wheeler_aligner_project:burrow-wheeler_aligner

References

https://github.com/lh3/bwa/issues/239
https://github.com/lh3/bwa/issues/239

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