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CVE record · CVE-2019-5108

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3.

CVSS 7.4 HighCriticalEPSS 0.10 · 95th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 7.4 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.10 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: talos) at 23 Dec 2019, 18:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Linux kernel
  • affected Linux 4.14.98-v7+
Identifiers
CVE-2019-5108
CNA
talos
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-440
Tags
Published
23 Dec 2019
Updated
4 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.4 High 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (talos)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.10, the 95th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Dec 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.