CVE-2019-9020 Details
An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.40, 7.x before 7.1.26, 7.2.x before 7.2.14, and 7.3.x before 7.3.1. Invalid input to the function xmlrpc_decode() can lead to an invalid memory access (heap out of bounds read or read after free). This is related to xml_elem_parse_buf in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2019-9020
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
4.96 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (89th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2019-9020
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
9.8 Critical
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CVE-2019-9020 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 735,434 28.78%
JP 241,129 9.44%
DE 203,355 7.96%
RU 164,106 6.42%
CN 125,558 4.91%
NL 120,513 4.72%
FR 110,574 4.33%
KR 99,040 3.88%
IT 65,028 2.54%
GB 56,703 2.22%

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CVE-2019-9020 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 1,330,276 75.15%
Telecommunications 362,848 20.50%
Education 16,004 0.90%
Media/Entertainment 14,619 0.83%
Government/Politics 9,020 0.51%
Food Production 8,444 0.48%
Business Services 8,033 0.45%
Manufacturing 3,400 0.19%
Utilities 3,311 0.19%
Energy/Resources 2,205 0.12%

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