CVE-2019-8961

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-8961 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe versions 11.16.2 and earlier. This flaw allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a stack exhaustion by repeatedly sending specially crafted messages that cause a recursive function call. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete denial of service. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.16.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:flexera:flexnet_publisher:11.16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (5)

boschvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
maxkbvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
naturalintelligencevendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
netgearvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
opnsensevendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (5)

netgearllm-netgear-d2ad18029fe179a7HIGH

Schneider Electric FLM v2.3.1.0 / FlexNet Publisher 11.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2019
maxkbllm-maxkb-218194b530ea343cHIGH

Schneider Electric FLM v2.3.1.0 / FlexNet Publisher 11.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2019
boschllm-bosch-a77dbdf26651dfc7HIGH

Schneider Electric FLM v2.3.1.0 / FlexNet Publisher 11.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2019
opnsensellm-opnsense-2a6bda0cb329ee37HIGH

Schneider Electric FLM v2.3.1.0 / FlexNet Publisher 11.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2019
naturalintelligencellm-naturalintelligence-a8d2341ef3665f3dHIGH

Schneider Electric FLM v2.3.1.0 / FlexNet Publisher 11.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nov 20, 2019

References

community.flexera.com / t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2019-8961-remediated-in-FlexNet-Publisher/ta-p/124601/jump-to/first-unread-message
Vendor Advisory