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CVE-2019-11038

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-11038 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the GD Graphics Library (LibGD) versions 2.2.5 and specific PHP GD extension versions (7.1.x below 7.1.30, 7.2.x below 7.2.19, and 7.3.x below 7.3.6), impacting various Linux distributions. It allows an attacker to supply specially crafted data to the gdImageCreateFromXbm() function, leading to the disclosure of uninitialized stack memory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating a low impact on confidentiality with no integrity or availability impact, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libgd:libgd:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.1LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0433 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gd
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gd
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-php70-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-11038Low

gd: Information disclosure in gdImageCreateFromXbm()

Jun 18, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00020.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2519
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3299
Third Party Advisory
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.php.net / bug.php
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / libgd/libgd/issues/501
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CZ2QADQTKRHTGB2AHD7J4QQNDLBEMM6
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PKSSWFR2WPMUOIB5EN5ZM252NNEPYUTG
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAZBVK6XNYEIN7RDQXESSD63QHXPLKWL
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/38
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4316-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4316-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4529
Third Party Advisory