Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-8339
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.
osv:CVE-2019-8339
Complete source record
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"id": "4e881860e7c8424ddd6cfbdf05e8f16a0791b72936ddcb92493d8a3c53882db4",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-8339",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2019-8339",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Falco through 0.14.0. A missing indicator for insufficient resources allows local users to bypass the detection engine.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-8339",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
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"aliases": [
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"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "62c1a0440d8756a41f17e02b7595081cb798b236"
}
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"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:falco:falco:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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},
{
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}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
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"0.13.1",
"0.13.0",
"0.12.0",
"0.11.1",
"0.11.0",
"0.10.0",
"0.9.0",
"0.8.1",
"0.8.0",
"0.7.0",
"0.6.1",
"0.6.0",
"0.4.0",
"0.3.0",
"v0.2.0",
"v0.1.0"
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"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8339.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:47.109064358Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://falco.org/docs/event-sources/dropped-events/",
"https://sysdig.com/blog/cve-2019-8339-falco-vulnerability/",
"https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/561",
"https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/falco-vulnerability-cve-2019-8339/"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2019-8339",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383819,
"published_at": "2019-05-17T20:29:05.227+00:00"
}