CVE-2019-8339
An issue was discovered in Sysdig through 0.24.2, as used in Falco through 0.14.0 and other...
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
- Record
CVE-2019-8339- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 Low
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
- Record
CVE-2019-8339- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-17729 No score
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
- Record
EUVD-2019-17729- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-35j6-76jp-jqcj
An issue was discovered in Sysdig through 0.24.2, as used in Falco through 0.14.0 and other...
An issue was discovered in Sysdig through 0.24.2, as used in Falco through 0.14.0 and other products. A bypass allows local users to run malicious code without being detected because record_event_consumer in driver/main.c in sysdig-probe.ko (and falco-probe.ko) mishandles a free space calculation.
- Record
GHSA-35j6-76jp-jqcj- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
- Record
CVE-2019-8339- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-8339 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Falco, published May 17, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.56%, the 46th percentile. No source names a fixed version.