$ cve CVE-2019-17544 JSON

CVE-2019-17544

9.1

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.3% (pctl 88)

In your normal cycle

Critical by CVSS (9.1), but no sign of active exploitation.

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.

CVSS	9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS	3.26% — more likely to be exploited than 88% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-125
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2019-10-14
Last modified	2026-06-17

Vendor	Product
canonical	ubuntu linux
gnu	aspell