CVE-2019-18349
Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
HotkeyP through 4.9 r96 allows privilege escalation in the privilege function in Commands.cpp.
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Base score: 9.8
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.38%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 83
- Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
References
- https://gist.github.com/matt-thibodeau/8bf16bba4c2a13978ed4e5fd08fbe2c2
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hotkeyp/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/WhatsNew.txt
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hotkeyp/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/source/Commands.cpp
- https://gist.github.com/matt-thibodeau/8bf16bba4c2a13978ed4e5fd08fbe2c2
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hotkeyp/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/WhatsNew.txt
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hotkeyp/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/source/Commands.cpp
Raw JSON (NVD)
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