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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-12594 json

DOSBox 0.74-2 has Incorrect Access Control.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-4188

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

DOSBox 0.74-2 has Incorrect Access Control.

Patch / fix

  • dosbox Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.74-3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12594

  • dosbox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.74-4.2+deb9u2build0.16.04.1
  • dosbox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.74-4.3ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12594

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

  • dosbox openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.74.3-5.2
  • dosbox Package Hub 15 SP1 0.74.3-bp151.4.3.1
  • dosbox Package Hub 15, openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Leap 15.0 0.74.3-bp150.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10725-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1920-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1905-1

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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-2019-12594 updated cvss 9.8

dosbox: running a malicious executable in the emulator could result in the execution of arbitrary code

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

6.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.