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CVE-2019-18849: In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winma

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.2% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 68% of all records.
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: tnef (Debian:12) 1.4.18-1; tnef (Debian:8) 1.4.9-1+deb8u4; tnef (Debian:9) 1.4.12-1.2+deb9u1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to tnef (Debian:12) 1.4.18-1; tnef (Debian:8) 1.4.9-1+deb8u4; tnef (Debian:9) 1.4.12-1.2+deb9u1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Nov 11, 2019
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.2% · 68th percentile

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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.2%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
tnef projecttnef
fedoraprojectfedora
canonicalubuntu linux
debiandebian linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • canonical ubuntu linux16.04
  • debian debian linux8.0
  • fedoraproject fedora30
  • fedoraproject fedora31
  • tnef project tnefbefore 1.4.18

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12tnefbefore 1.4.18-11.4.18-1
Debian:8tnefbefore 1.4.9-1+deb8u41.4.9-1+deb8u4
Debian:9tnefbefore 1.4.12-1.2+deb9u11.4.12-1.2+deb9u1

Same product

tnef project: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2017-8911An integer underflow has been identified in the unicode_to_utf8() function in tnef 1.4.14.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-103678Tnef: heap out-of-bounds read in get_rtf_data_from_buf() via uncompressed rtf mapi value
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2017-6310An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13.
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2017-6308Feb 24, 2017 · An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13.
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2017-6309Feb 24, 2017 · An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13.
    31Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-103679Oct 1, 2026 · Tnef: use-after-free and double-free in get_body_files() via multi-value body extraction
    26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:tnef1.4.18-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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