What is CVE-2019-11890?

CVE-2019-11890 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sony Bravia, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2019-11890?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Sony Bravia

CVE-2019-11890

Sony Bravia Smart TV devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang or reboot) via a SYN flood attack over a wired or Wi-Fi LAN.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2019-07-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.044 (91.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

www.first.org/members/teams/sony_psirt (Third Party Advisory)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/153547/Sony-BRAVIA-Smart-TV-Denial-Of-Service.html (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.darkmatter.ae/xen1thlabs/sony-remote-denial-of-service-over-wifi-lan-intern… (Third Party Advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jul/8 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11890?: CVE-2019-11890 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sony Bravia, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2019-11890?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.