CVE-2019-8961

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message, an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-8961
  • Assigner
  • PSIRT-CNA@flexerasoftware.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-04-21T15:15:14
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-21T11:39:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-674 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:flexera:flexnet_publisher:11.16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2019-8961-remediated-in-FlexNet-Publisher/ta-p/124601/jump-to/first-unread-message Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8961
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8961
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:11:16 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 15:19:57 2020-04-21T15:15Z 2020-04-21T15:15:14 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 15:19:57 2021-07-21T11:39:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 15:19:57 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated