GNU Recutils vulnerabilities

14 CVEs affecting GNU Recutils, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2025-65409, published 2025-12-30.

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• CVE-2019-11640, published 2019-05-01. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function rec_fex_parse_str_simple at rec-fex.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-11639, published 2019-05-01. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function rec_type_check_enum at rec-types.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-11638, published 2019-05-01. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_field_name_equal_p at rec-field-name.c in librec.a, leading to a crash.
• CVE-2019-11637, published 2019-05-01. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_rset_get_props at rec-rset.c in librec.a, leading to a crash.
• CVE-2019-6456, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_fex_size() in the file rec-fex.c of librec.a.
• CVE-2019-6460, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function rec_field_set_name() in the file rec-field.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-6459, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_extract_type in rec-utils.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-6458, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_buf_new in rec-buf.c when called from rec_parse_rset in rec-parser.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-6457, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a memory leak in rec_aggregate_reg_new in rec-aggregate.c in librec.a.
• CVE-2019-6455, published 2019-01-16. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An issue was discovered in GNU Recutils 1.8. There is a double-free problem in the function rec_mset_elem_destroy() in the file rec-mset.c.

Latest

• CVE-2025-65409, published 2025-12-30. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A divide-by-zero in the encryption/decryption routines of GNU Recutils v1.9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via inputting an empty value as a password.
• CVE-2021-46022, published 2022-01-14. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An Use-After-Free vulnerability in rec_mset_elem_destroy() at rec-mset.c of GNU Recutils v1.8.90 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.
• CVE-2021-46021, published 2022-01-14. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An Use-After-Free vulnerability in rec_record_destroy() at rec-record.c of GNU Recutils v1.8.90 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.
• CVE-2021-46019, published 2022-01-14. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An untrusted pointer dereference in rec_db_destroy() at rec-db.c of GNU Recutils v1.8.90 can lead to a segmentation fault or application crash.