GnuCOBOL is a compact, open-source COBOL compiler that translates legacy business applications to modern platforms, with a narrowly scoped but strategically important footprint in enterprise system modernization. Its vulnerability surface concentrates in memory-safety issues—out-of-bounds writes, buffer-boundary violations, and use-after-free conditions—that are characteristic of native-code compilation and reflect the handling of large data structures and pointer operations in generated machine code. Defenders maintaining COBOL-to-native pipelines should treat compiler updates as part of broader application validation; current severity, exploitation, and exposure figures are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Gnucobol Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
6 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2019-14468HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a buffer overflow in cb_push_op in cobc/field.c via crafted COBOL source code. | Aug 1, 2019 | 7.8 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-16396HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a use-after-free in the end_scope_of_program_name() function in cobc/parser.y via crafted COBOL source code. | Sep 17, 2019 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-16395HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the cb_name() function in cobc/tree.c via crafted COBOL source code. | Sep 17, 2019 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-14486HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a buffer overflow in cb_evaluate_expr in cobc/field.c via crafted COBOL source code. | Aug 1, 2019 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-14528HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in read_literal in cobc/scanner.l via crafted COBOL source code. | Aug 2, 2019 | 7.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-14541HIGH GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in cb_encode_program_id in cobc/typeck.c via crafted COBOL source code. | Aug 2, 2019 | 7.8 | 23 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Gnucobol Project.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Gnucobol Project — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.