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CVE-2019-0622

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-0622 describes an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Skype for Android, specifically affecting version 8.35. This flaw arises from the application's improper handling of certain authentication requests. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), exploitation requires physical access to the device (AV:P) and could lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H) without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite limited community discussion, the vulnerability received some media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:skype:8.35:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.6MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 1,530 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2019-Jan/CVE-2019-0622Moderate

Skype for Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Jan 8, 2019

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0622
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/106465
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry