CVE-2019-6458

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.3%

Medium (6.5) in gnu recutils. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in rec-buf.c when called from rec_parse_rset in rec-parser.c in librec.a.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-401
Published: 2019-01-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:recutils

References

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/recutils

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