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CVE-2019-14559

Published: 31 December 2019

Uncontrolled resource consumption in EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via network access.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
as of 2020-03-05, two of the upstream bugs still aren't resolved

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
edk2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.2)
eoan
Released (0~20190606.20d2e5a1-2ubuntu1.1)
focal Not vulnerable
(0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/578bcdc2605e3438b9cbdac4e68339f90f5bf8af
upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/1d3215fd24f47eaa4877542a59b4bbf5afc0cfe8
upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/65c73df44c61235ede84c5aa1d2eab6650844966
upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/9c20342eed70ec99ec50cd73cb81804299f05403
upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/4deef2d865efdc61d1a53ad7bd48f9dd42560b45

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H