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CVE-2019-18183

Date: February 24, 2020

pacman before 5.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary command injection in lib/libalpm/sync.c in the apply_deltas() function. This can be exploited when unsigned databases are used. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must enable the non-default delta feature and retrieve an attacker-controlled crafted database and delta file.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-secdb/blob/master/v3.11/community.yaml
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2TTUXXUW5OCOASIRMJK4RHEPLEA33Y6C/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KIDJ4XKBZRRVRFFGKUA3ZU6NFIP5JUG3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K53C45EDWBU3UCN3IRIGR5EZUNWXS7BW/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18183
https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=c0e9be7973be6c81b22fde91516fb8991e7bb07b
https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/lib/libalpm/sync.c?h=v5.1.3#n767
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-18183
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K53C45EDWBU3UCN3IRIGR5EZUNWXS7BW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KIDJ4XKBZRRVRFFGKUA3ZU6NFIP5JUG3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2TTUXXUW5OCOASIRMJK4RHEPLEA33Y6C/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-18183

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

CWE-74

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE-78

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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