CVE-2019-11578 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 5.9
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-11578 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2019-11578 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11578 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11578/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11578/index.md)
Attackers can infer secrets from dhcpcd via latency attacks, potentially exposing sensitive network configuration data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-11578?
CVE-2019-11578 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
auth.c in dhcpcd before 7.2.1 allowed attackers to infer secrets by performing latency attacks.
Weakness: CWE-203
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11578?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd.
How do I fix CVE-2019-11578?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2019-11578 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11578 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2019-11577 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2016-1503 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2016-1504 dhcpcd before 6.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via vectors related to the option length.
- CVE-2026-56116 dhcpcd Memory Leak DoS via IPv6 Router Advertisement Handling
- CVE-2014-7912 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11578, GHSA-wmp8-c7xc-v29x, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11578.