Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting clickhouse/clickhouse package, versions [,19.11.7.40)[19.12.1.889, 19.13.2.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLICKHOUSECLICKHOUSE-10188826
  • published22 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2019
  • creditEldar Zaitov

Introduced: 18 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16536  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clickhouse/clickhouse to version 19.11.7.40, 19.13.2.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack-based Buffer Overflow via SQL parser. An attacker can cause the system to crash or become unresponsive by sending specially crafted data that will lead to stack overflow.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the attacker has valid authentication credentials.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1