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CVE-2019-15144

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-15144 describes an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in DjVuLibre 3.5.27's sorting functionality, affecting products from Canonical, Debian, FedoraProject, and OpenSUSE. An attacker can trigger an application crash (denial-of-service) by crafting a malicious PBM image file. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, but has a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djvulibre_project:djvulibre:3.5.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0177 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00086.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00087.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00036.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00022.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPMG3VY33XGMIKE6QDYIUVS6A7GNTHTK
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JO65AWU7LEWNF6DDCZPRFTR2ZPP5XK6L
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M7F7544WASYMOTFDR2WUEOQLN3ZEXNU4
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUEME45HVGTMDOYODAZYQOGWSZ2CEFWZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RYZTGKWY3NAKMIMTFYGN4ZO5XEQWPYRL
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-36
Third Party Advisory
sourceforge.net / p/djvu/bugs/299
ExploitThird Party Advisory
sourceforge.net / p/djvu/djvulibre-git/ci/e15d51510048927f172f1bf1f27ede65907d940d
PatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4198-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-5032
Third Party Advisory