CVE-2019-20433

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CVSS 3.1

9.1 critical

EPSS

2%p76

Published

Jan 27, 2020 (Jan 27, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.

Vendors: gnu
Products: aspell
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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