CVE-2019-1010142

Publication date 19 July 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

scapy 2.4.0 is affected by: Denial of Service. The impact is: infinite loop, resource consumption and program unresponsive. The component is: _RADIUSAttrPacketListField.getfield(self..). The attack vector is: over the network or in a pcap. both work.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
scapy	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://github.com/secdev/scapy/pull/1409
https://github.com/secdev/scapy/commit/0d7ae2b039f650a40e511d09eb961c782da025d9 (v2.4.1)
https://github.com/secdev/scapy/pull/1409/files#diff-441eff981e466959968111fc6314fe93L1058
https://www.imperva.com/blog/scapy-sploit-python-network-tool-is-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-dos-attack-cve-pending/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1010142