FlightCrew v0.9.2 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during extraction.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2019-13241 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.4/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.41%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-05-12 | 0.74% | 0.41% | -0.33% |
| 2 | 2026-03-29 | 1.01% | 0.74% | -0.26% |
| 3 | 2026-03-04 | — | 1.01% | — |
Full EPSS history (23 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
|
1.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 6.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2019-13241 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (flightcrew), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13241 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2019-13241 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (flightcrew), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 4, DNE 1, needed 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13241 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| flightcrew_project | flightcrew | <= 0.9.2 | cpe:2.3:a:flightcrew_project:flightcrew:*:*:*:*:*:sigil:*:* |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.10 | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 19.04 | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/flightcrew/issues/52 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-part-3-of-3/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4055-1/ | Third Party Advisory |