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CVE-2019-9641

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9641 is a critical vulnerability affecting the EXIF component in PHP versions before 7.1.27, 7.2.16, and 7.3.3, impacting products like Canonical, Debian, NetApp, and openSUSE. This uninitialized read vulnerability, rated 9.8 Critical on CVSS, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. Despite its high severity and EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.1.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0940 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-9641Moderate

php: Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF

Jan 23, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00083.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00104.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00041.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00044.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.php.net / bug.php
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00043.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190502-0007
PatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3922-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3922-2
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3922-3
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4403
Third Party Advisory