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medium 5.7

CVE-2019-6474 json

A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the kea-dhcp6 server to terminate

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-16034

cvss
5.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A missing check on incoming client requests can be exploited to cause a situation where the Kea server's lease storage contains leases which are rejected as invalid when the server tries to load leases from storage on restart. If the number of such leases exceeds a hard-coded limit in the Kea code, a server trying to restart will conclude that there is a problem with its lease store and give up. Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, 1.6.0-beta1, and 1.6.0-beta2

Patch / fix

  • isc-kea Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.7.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6474

  • kea Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 1.7.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-6474

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kea Arch Linux 1.8.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1032

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-6474 updated cvss 6.5

kea: ncoming client requests can lead to server restart

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.1 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

  • ISC Kea

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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