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CVE-2019-11498

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-11498 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in WavPack through version 5.1.0, affecting products like canonical, debian, and fedoraproject. It stems from an uninitialized value condition in the WavpackSetConfiguration64 function, triggered by DFF files lacking valid sample-rate data. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially causing application crashes. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wavpack:wavpack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0304 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: wavpack-0:5.1.0-15.el8
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mingw-wavpack

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-11498Low

wavpack: Use of uninitialized variable in WavpackSetConfiguration64 leads to DoS

Mar 5, 2019

References

github.com / dbry/WavPack/commit/bc6cba3f552c44565f7f1e66dc1580189addb2b4
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / dbry/WavPack/issues/67
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CFFFWIWALGQPKINRDW3PRGRD5LOLGZA
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRWQNE3TH5UF64IKHKKHVCHJHUOVKJUH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZDKXGA2ZNSSM64ZYDHOWCO4Q4VAKAON
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SCK2YJXY6V5CKGKSF2PPN7RL2DXVOC6G
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-19
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3960-1
Third Party Advisory