CVE-2019-7394
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface of CA Technologies CA Strong Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x,…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative user interface of CA Technologies CA Strong Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 7.1.x and CA Risk Authentication 9.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x, 3.1.x allows an authenticated attacker to gain additional privileges in some cases where an account has customized and limited privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ca
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company · CA Strong Authentication
- affected 9.0.x
- affected 8.2.x
- affected 8.1.x
- affected 8.0.x
- affected 7.1.x
CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company · CA Risk Authentication
- affected 9.0.x
- affected 8.2.x
- affected 8.1.x
- affected 8.0.x
- affected 3.1.x
References
References5
- 20190527 CA20190523-01: Security Notice for CA Risk Authentication and CA Strong Authentication (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153089/CA-Risk-Strong-Authentication-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 108483 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/security-notices/CA20190523-01--security-notice-for-ca-risk-authentication-and-ca-strong-authentication.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20190529 CA20190523-01: Security Notice for CA Risk Authentication and CA Strong Authentication (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-16936 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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