CVE-2019-16789

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

2.58% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 84.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Important. 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

2019-12-26 16:40Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 01:24Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-09-24

Assigning CNA

GitHub_M

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.1)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-444Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

346686d0c3b3b71835a2c9f812454cd7e6045df0b9a7738a4ef25cbf01447db8

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