What is CVE-2019-4236?

CVE-2019-4236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux, classified under CWE-19. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2019-07-22.

How severe is CVE-2019-4236?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux

CVE-2019-4236

A IBM Spectrum Protect 7.l client backup or archive operation running for an HP-UX VxFS object is silently skipping Access Control List (ACL) entries from backup or archive if there are more than twelve ACL entries associated with the object in total. As a result, it could allow a local attacker to restore or retrieve the object with incorrect ACL entries. IBM X-Force ID: 159418.

Published 2019-07-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.1th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-19

References

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159418 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-4236?: CVE-2019-4236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux, classified under CWE-19. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2019-07-22.
How severe is CVE-2019-4236?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.