CVE-2019-17400

Exp

The unoconv package before 0.9 mishandles untrusted pathnames, leading to SSRF and local file inclusion.

Published: 2019-10-21 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2019-17400 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.5/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.93%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.49% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2019-17400

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2019-17400

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 2026-06-15 0.44% 1.93% +1.49%
2 2025-11-21 0.31% 0.44% +0.12%
3 2025-11-18 — 0.31% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2019-17400

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2019-17400

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2019-17400

GHSA-27p5-7cw6-m45h · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Server-Side Request Forgery in unoconv

OS Trackers for CVE-2019-17400

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2019-17400 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (unoconv), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid): resolved 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17400
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17400
ubuntu medium CVE-2019-17400 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (unoconv), 18 status rows across 18 suites (bionic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 12, needed 3, ignored 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17400

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2019-17400

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
universal_office_converter_project universal_office_converter < 0.9 cpe:2.3:a:universal_office_converter_project:universal_office_converter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2019-17400

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