VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-8961

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message, an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Primary references