What is CVE-2019-14531?

CVE-2019-14531 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2019-14531?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit

CVE-2019-14531

An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.6.6. There is an out of bounds read on iso9660 while parsing System Use Sharing Protocol data in fs/iso9660.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-08-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit — versions 4.6.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1576 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14531?: CVE-2019-14531 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2019-14531?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.