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CVE-2019-9019

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The British Airways Entertainment System, as installed on Boeing 777-36N(ER) and possibly other aircraft, does not prevent the USB charging/data-transfer feature from interacting with USB keyboard and mouse devices, which allows physically proximate attackers to conduct unanticipated attacks against Entertainment applications, as demonstrated by using mouse copy-and-paste actions to trigger a Chat buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• British Airways Entertainment System: all versions

References

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/buffer-overflow-exploitation-british-airways-system-marco-gisbert/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/buffer-overflow-exploitation-british-airways-system-marco-gisbert/

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