Vulnerability CVE-2019-11940


Published: 2019-12-04

Description:
In the course of decompressing HPACK inside the HTTP2 protocol, an unexpected sequence of header table resize operations can place the header table into a corrupted state, leading to a use-after-free condition and undefined behavior. This issue affects Proxygen from v0.29.0 until v2017.04.03.00.

Type:

CWE-416

(Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Facebook -> Proxygen 

 References:
https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/commit/f43b134cc5c19d8532e7fb670a1c02e85f7a8d4f
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11940

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