CVE-2019-2708 Denial of service in Oracle Berkeley DB

What is CVE-2019-2708?

CVE-2019-2708 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Berkeley Db, published on 23 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Data Store component of Oracle Berkeley DB. Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.138, prior to 6.2.38 and prior to 18.1.32. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having Local Logon privilege with logon to the infrastructure where Data Store executes to compromise Data Store. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Data Store. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2708?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Berkeley Db.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2708?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-2708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Berkeley Db

• CVE-2016-0682 Other in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-0689 Other in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-0692 Other in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-0694 Other in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-3418 Other in n/a High 7.8

All Oracle Berkeley Db vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALSA-2021:1675, AZL-34927, AZL-6630, BELL-CVE-2019-2708, GHSA-4h5r-2hfh-8prm, MGASA-2021-0057 and 7 more.