CVE-2019-8961: Flexera Flexnet Publisher

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to stack exhaustion has been identified in FlexNet Publisher lmadmin.exe 11.16.2. Because the message reading function calls itself recursively given a certain condition in the received message, an unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send messages of that type to cause a stack exhaustion condition.

Affected products

• Flexera Flexnet Publisher: version 11.16.2 only

Published 2020-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.