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CVE-2019-0161

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-0161 describes a stack overflow vulnerability within the XHCI implementation of EDK II, affecting products utilizing this firmware. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows a local, authenticated attacker to potentially cause a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk_ii:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ovmf-0:20180508-6.gitee3198e672e2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: edk2-0:20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: imgbased-0:1.1.9-0.1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ovirt-node-ng-0:4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.3.5-2.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-0161Moderate

edk2: stack overflow in XHCI causing denial of service

Jun 5, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00046.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2125
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2437
edk2-docs.gitbooks.io / security-advisory/content/xhci-stack-local-stack-overflow.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00032.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQYVZRFEXSN3KS43AVH4D7QX553EZQYP