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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2019-14553 json

Improper authentication in EDK II may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.

published 2020-11-23 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-5714

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper authentication in EDK II may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.

Patch / fix

  • edk2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0~20190828.37eef910-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14553

  • ovmf SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +1 more 2017+git1510945757.b2662641d5-3.23.1
  • ovmf SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 2017+git1510945757.b2662641d5-5.29.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:0699-1SUSE-SU-2020:0568-1

  • ovmf openSUSE Tumbleweed 202105-3.4
  • ovmf openSUSE Leap 15.1 2017+git1510945757.b2662641d5-lp151.11.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11134-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0314-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14553 updated cvss 7.5

edk2: invalid server certificate accepted in HTTPS-over-IPv6 boot

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ovmf, OVMF, AAVMF Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 edk2, edk2-ovmf, edk2-aarch64
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a Extensible Firmware Interface Development Kit (EDK II)

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.