🛡️ CVE-2019-12410 — pyarrow

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-909 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Missing Initialization of Resource in Apache Arrow

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory could potentially be shared if are transmitted over the wire (for instance with Flight) or persisted in the streaming IPC and file formats.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-12410 is classified as CWE-909: Missing Initialization of Resource. A resource is never initialised before use, leaving behaviour dependent on prior state.

Affected software

CVE-2019-12410 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • pyarrow (from 0.12.0 up to 0.15.1)
  • red-arrow (from 0.12.0 up to 0.15.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 21 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-909
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pyarrow 0.12.0 0.15.1
red-arrow 0.12.0 0.15.1

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