What is CVE-2019-12875?

CVE-2019-12875 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alpinelinux Abuild, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-18.

How severe is CVE-2019-12875?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Alpinelinux Abuild

CVE-2019-12875

Alpine Linux abuild through 3.4.0 allows an unprivileged member of the abuild group to add an untrusted package via a --keys-dir option that causes acceptance of an untrusted signing key.

Published 2019-06-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Alpinelinux Abuild

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/sroracle/abuild/commit/4f90ce92778d0ee302e288def75591b96a397c8b (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
code.foxkit.us/adelie/packages/commit/15b160780c6eeff7048063c099a7f8757e1d8391 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190625-0005/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12875?: CVE-2019-12875 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alpinelinux Abuild, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-12875?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.