What is CVE-2019-15167?

CVE-2019-15167 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Tcpdump, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2022-08-27.

How severe is CVE-2019-15167?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Tcpdump

CVE-2019-15167

The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print() for VRRP version 3, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14463.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2022-08-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Tcpdump

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/a152aebfd1114376ba266ed30416be596ef… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15167?: CVE-2019-15167 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Tcpdump, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2022-08-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-15167?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.