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CVE-2019-12904

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12904 describes a flush-and-reload side-channel vulnerability in the C implementation of AES within Libgcrypt 1.8.4, affecting products like GnuPG and openSUSE. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, potentially allowing an attacker to compromise confidentiality. Despite the vendor's inability to validate an attack, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:libgcrypt:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0206 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libgcrypt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libgcrypt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libgcrypt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libgcrypt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-12904Moderate

Libgcrypt: physical addresses being available to other processes leads to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack

Jul 16, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00049.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
dev.gnupg.org / T4541
Third Party Advisory
github.com / gpg/libgcrypt/commit/a4c561aab1014c3630bc88faf6f5246fee16b020
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / gpg/libgcrypt/commit/daedbbb5541cd8ecda1459d3b843ea4d92788762
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E