Medium
Security advisory
njs through 0.3.3, used in NGINX, has a heap-based buffer over-read in nxt_vsprintf in nxt/nxt_sprintf.c during error handling, as demonstrated by an njs_regexp_literal call that leads to an njs_parser_lexer_error call and then an njs_parser_scope_error call.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-13617
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
njs through 0.3.3, used in NGINX, has a heap-based buffer over-read in nxt_vsprintf in nxt/nxt_sprintf.c during error handling, as demonstrated by an njs_regexp_literal call that leads to an njs_parser_lexer_error call and then an njs_parser_scope_error call.
osv:CVE-2019-13617
Complete source record
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