CVE-2019-3839

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

1.70% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 77.1% 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

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

2019-05-16 18:31Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 19:19Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-01-03

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.3)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-648Incorrect Use of Privileged APIsBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

73fbe3fedea0e1eb8e0499ece92716e22cde9a1cf243a6196e27c2bc95ae44d8

• access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:0971https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839x_refsource_CONFIRM
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:1017https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3970-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.debian.orgDSA-4442https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• seclists.org20190512 [SECURITY] [DSA 4442-1] ghostscript security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190519 [SECURITY] [DLA 1792-1] ghostscript security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-953fc0f16dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-ebd6c4f15ahttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2222http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2223http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE