CVE-2019-16891

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 45% (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, nvd
Elevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 45%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Liferay Portal CE 6.2.5 allows remote command execution because of deserialization of a JSON payload.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
66
EG Risk 66/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation45% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability30% × 15%
EchelonGraph's default before algorithm v3.4: CISA had not published Automatable for this CVE.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
45%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (EG-KEV: elevated) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

Published

October 4, 2019

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 5, 2026
Patch available.
generic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMEfQW3bf0
generic

Download Liferay DXP Free Tier - Liferay DXP

https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community
generic

Liferay deserialization (JSON Deserialization) [part 4] (CVE-2019-16891) | Blog | VNPT Cyber Immunity

https://sec.vnpt.vn/2019/09/liferay-deserialization-json-deserialization-part-4/
genericMentions a patch (unverified)

An advisory for CVE-2019-16891: From PostAuth RCE to PreAuth RCE on Liferay Portal

https://dappsec.substack.com/p/an-advisory-for-cve-2019-16891-from

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom7.0.6, 7.0.6-1, 7.0.6-2, 7.1.0
  • every version up to 7.1.1: fixed in 7.1.1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 21× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 84 of 111 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 16 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 27 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-16891?
CVE-2019-16891 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 4, 2019. Liferay Portal CE 6.2.5 allows remote command execution because of deserialization of a JSON payload.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2019-16891 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2019-16891 was published on October 4, 2019. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2019-16891 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-16891 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 45% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-16891?
CVE-2019-16891 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-16891?
A fix for CVE-2019-16891 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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