Double Free in psutil · CVE-2019-18874 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Double Free in psutil

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 12, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

psutil (pip)

Affected versions

<= 5.6.5

Patched versions

5.6.6

Description

psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.

References

Reviewed Mar 12, 2020

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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