CVE-2019-20433

mediumpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.017 · 78 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.74% (78th) EPSS
CVSS 6.4 · medium
Is it mine?
13 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 6.4–9.1

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 4.9
v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.2
v3.19.1criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

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CWE-125USprimaryCWE-125US
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affected products (13)

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also known as (4)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bdunvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2020-01-27modified 2026-06-17
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references (7)

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