CVE-2019-7401 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

NGINX Unit before 1.7.1 might allow an attacker to cause a heap-based buffer overflow in the router process with a specially crafted request. This may result in a denial of service (router process crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03422.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
F5	Nginx unit

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx unit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://hg.nginx.org/unit/file/tip/CHANGES
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/unit/2019-February/000113.html
http://unit.nginx.org/CHANGES.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106956

History

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		F5 F5 nginx unit
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:nginx:unit::::::::	cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx unit::::::::
Vendors & Products	Nginx Nginx unit	F5 F5 nginx unit

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-02-08T03:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T20:46:46.265Z

Reserved: 2019-02-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-7401

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-02-08T03:29:00.247

Modified: 2025-08-12T17:24:44.367

Link: CVE-2019-7401

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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