CVE-2019-15846

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

35.74% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 98.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Critical. 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

2019-09-06 10:15Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 01:03Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-09-02

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

44f0df2ccff2211bd2deb7e468572d3be6ff0dd102d9b16c170b937aba2cbdc4

• exim.orghttp://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txtx_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/1x_refsource_MISC
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1911-1] exim4 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00004.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• seclists.org20190906 [SECURITY] [DSA 4517-1] exim4 security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/13mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Re: CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges.http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.debian.orgDSA-4517https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4517vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4124-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.kb.cert.orgVU#672565https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/672565third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Sv: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privilegeshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/6mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Re: CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges.http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Re: CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges.http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/5mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201909-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-06vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Re: Re: CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges.http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190907 Re: Sv: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privilegeshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190906 Re: Sv: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privilegeshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-ae361e20c2https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDF37AUNETIOXY6ZLQAUBGBVUTMMV242/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-467fcbb10ahttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FT3GY7V7SR2RHKNZNQCGXFWUSILVSZNU/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190908 Re: Re: CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges.http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/08/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190909 Re: Sv: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privilegeshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/09/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2093http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00024.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-1ed7bbb09chttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SBNHDAF74RI6VK2JVSEIE3VYNL7JJDYM/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4124-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-2/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• exim.orghttps://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txtx_refsource_MISC