What is CVE-2019-9072?

CVE-2019-9072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2019-9072?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GNU Binutils

CVE-2019-9072

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in setup_group in elf.c.

Published 2019-02-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
support.f5.com/csp/article/K12541829 (Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9072?: CVE-2019-9072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2019-9072?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.