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CVE-2019-8907

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-8907 is a high-severity stack corruption vulnerability in the libmagic.a library within file 5.35, specifically in the do_core_note function. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) and potentially achieve other unspecified impacts, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, File Project, and OpenSUSE. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0347 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 14,825 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-8907Low

file: do_core_note in readelf.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

Jan 3, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00027.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00053.html
bugs.astron.com / view.php
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00044.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3911-1
Third Party Advisory