High severity · published Apr 21, 2020
CVE-2019-8961
A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2
7.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FP
Flexnet Publisher · Flexera
11.16.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8961
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-8961
Vendor Advisory
https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2019-8961-remediated-in-FlexNet-Publisher/ta-p/124601/jump-to/first-unread-message
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