{"id":"CVE-2019-15897","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-15897","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T02:10:24.124Z","title":"beegfs-ctl in ThinkParQ BeeGFS through 7.1.3 allows Authentication Bypass via communication with a BeeGFS metadata server (which is typically not exposed to external networks).","description":"beegfs-ctl in ThinkParQ BeeGFS through 7.1.3 allows Authentication Bypass via communication with a BeeGFS metadata server (which is typically not exposed to external networks).","published":"2019-12-05T16:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:21:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.6,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["thinkparq/beegfs"],"epss":{"score":0.03045,"percentile":0.87466,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.04%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155573/BeeGFS-7.1.3-Privilege-Escalation.html","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/7","tags":["Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.hpcsec.com/2019/12/04/cve-2019-15897/","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155573/BeeGFS-7.1.3-Privilege-Escalation.html","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/7","tags":["Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.hpcsec.com/2019/12/04/cve-2019-15897/","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15897","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}