Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2019-9503

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9503 describes a frame validation bypass in the Broadcom brcmfmac WiFi driver, affecting Broadcom and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker, under specific conditions (e.g., USB bus usage), to bypass frame validation. With a CVSS score of 8.3 (High), it can lead to arbitrary code execution or denial-of-service by sending specially crafted WiFi packets, though high attack complexity is noted. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available, with minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brcmfmac_driver:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.9HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0328 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 237 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1127.rt56.1093.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-1127.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-1062.26.1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-80.11.1.rt9.156.el8_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-80.11.1.el8_0
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kernel
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-alt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-9503Moderate

kernel: brcmfmac frame validation bypass

Feb 19, 2019

References

blog.quarkslab.com / reverse-engineering-broadcom-wireless-chipsets.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
git.kernel.org / pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/166939
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
people.canonical.com / ~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-9503.html
Third Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2019-9503
Third Party Advisory