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CVE-2019-20919

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-20919 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the DBI module for Perl, affecting various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Perl itself. With a CVSS score of 4.7 (Medium), exploitation requires local access and high attack complexity, leading to a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.643CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:dbi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 1,296 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 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
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: perl-DBI
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: perl-DBI
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-perl526-perl-DBI
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-perl530-perl-DBI

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-20919Low

perl-dbi: NULL profile dereference in dbi_profile()

Jul 31, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/eca7d7c8f43d96f6277e86d1000e842eb4cc67ff
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR
metacpan.org / pod/distribution/DBI/Changes
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4534-1
Third Party Advisory