CVE-2019-14193

An issue was discovered in Das U-Boot through 2019.07. There is an unbounded memcpy with an unvalidated length at nfs_readlink_reply, in the "if" block after calculating the new path length.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

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

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/	Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot	Third Party Advisory
https://web.archive.org/web/20191130052117/https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/
https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/	Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:denx:u-boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

10 Feb 2026, 17:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://web.archive.org/web/20191130052117/https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/ -

21 Nov 2024, 04:26

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/ - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/ - Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2019-07-31 13:15

Updated : 2026-02-10 17:16

NVD link : CVE-2019-14193

Mitre link : CVE-2019-14193

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-14193

JSON object : View

Products Affected

denx

u-boot

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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