Vulnerability in Flexera Flexnet Publisher

CVE-2019-8961

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message, an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2019-8961: held from 0.018 to 0.018.

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

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-8961?
CVE-2019-8961 is a high-severity vulnerability in Flexera Flexnet Publisher, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-04-21.
How severe is CVE-2019-8961?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.