CVE-2019-12979

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 82.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2019-06-26 17:09Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 23:41Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-06-26

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-665Improper InitializationClass
• CWE-456Missing Initialization of a VariableVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f9f595d71a7d35005d657f344970c2c21c0fd72ca685a04b9ee8bf7e4d4a51c6

• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1522x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com108913http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108913vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1983http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4192-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.debian.orgDSA-4712https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200818 [SECURITY] [DLA 2333-1] imagemagick security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST