VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-5439
A Buffer Overflow in VLC Media Player < 3.0.7 causes a crash which can possibly be further developed into a remote code execution exploit.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 5.29%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A Buffer Overflow in VLC Media Player < 3.0.7 causes a crash which can possibly be further developed into a remote code execution exploit.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 5.29% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120, CWE-119
- Affected
- videolan/vlc media player
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
EPSS moved from 6.4% on 21 September 2026 to 5.3% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108769
- https://hackerone.com/reports/484398Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108769
- https://hackerone.com/reports/484398Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.