Is CVE-2019-8960 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2019-8960 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2019-8960?

CVE-2019-8960 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2019-8960?

CVE-2019-8960 has an EPSS score of 1.28% (66th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix or mitigate CVE-2019-8960?

No published fix for CVE-2019-8960 has been found yet. Check the linked vendor advisories for guidance as it becomes available.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2019-8960

HIGH

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to command handling has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe version 11.16.2. The message reading function used in lmadmin.exe can, given a certain message, call itself again and then wait for a further message. With a particular flag set in the original message, but no second message received, the function eventually return an unexpected value which leads to an exception being thrown. The end result can be process termination.

CWE-754

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.28%probability of exploitation in 30 days

66thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 66% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

community.flexera.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.