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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2019-8842 json

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

published 2020-10-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-18232

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, and Security Update 2019-007 High Sierra. In certain configurations, a remote attacker may be able to submit arbitrary print jobs.

Patch / fix

  • Apple macOS 10.15
  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.1-12

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-8842

  • cups Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.9
  • cups Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.2
  • cups Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8842

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cups SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.7.5-20.33.1
  • cups SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 2.2.7-3.20.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:0286-1SUSE-SU-2021:0285-1

  • cups openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.3.3op2-4.2
  • cups openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.2.7-lp152.9.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10707-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0253-1

  • cups Alpine 3.10, Alpine 3.9 2.2.12-r1
  • cups Alpine 3.11 2.2.12-r2
  • cups Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +10 more 2.3.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-8842

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

2.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Apple macOS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

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.