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CVE-2019-17041

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17041 is a critical heap overflow vulnerability in Rsyslog v8.1908.0, specifically within the pmaixforwardedfrom module's parser for AIX log messages. This flaw affects various distributions including Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts over the network with low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.1908.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:8.1908.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0457 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower:3.5.6-1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.4-1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rsyslog-0:8.24.0-52.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: rsyslog-0:8.1911.0-3.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17041Moderate

rsyslog: heap-based overflow in contrib/pmaixforwardedfrom/pmaixforwardedfrom.c

Sep 30, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00032.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/v8-stable/ChangeLog
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/3884
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KPNCHI7X2IEXRH6RYD6IDPR4PLB5RPC7
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W6SUQE25RD37CD24BHKUWMG27U5RQ2FU