CVE-2019-9904

Exp

An issue was discovered in lib\cdt\dttree.c in libcdt.a in graphviz 2.40.1. Stack consumption occurs because of recursive agclose calls in lib\cgraph\graph.c in libcgraph.a, related to agfstsubg in lib\cgraph\subg.c.

Published: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2019-9904 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.70%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.53% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2019-9904

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2019-9904

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 0.17% 2.70% +2.53%
2 2026-03-29 0.08% 0.17% +0.10%
3 2026-03-15 — 0.08% —

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2019-9904

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 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:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2019-9904

OS Trackers for CVE-2019-9904

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2019-9904: 1 GLSA(s) (202107-04), 1 atom(s) (media-gfx/graphviz); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2019-9904
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9904
suse low CVE-2019-9904 severity low: SUSE including 4 source package names (graphviz, graphviz-devel, graphviz-plugins-core, libgraphviz6), 25 product×package rows across 19 product lines (SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3, … (19 product lines)): Known Not Affected 25. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9904/
ubuntu low CVE-2019-9904 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (graphviz), 19 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 11, needs-triage 7, deferred 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9904

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2019-9904

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
graphviz graphviz 2.40.1 cpe:2.3:a:graphviz:graphviz:2.40.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2019-9904

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