CVE-2019-10269

BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bntseq.c via a long sequence name in a .alt file.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

2.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile

Published

2019-03-29

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://coreymhudson.github.io/bwa_vulnerabilties/

Security advisories

• https://coreymhudson.github.io/bwa_vulnerabilties
• lh3/bwa/pull/232
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4087-1

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry