{"id":"CVE-2017-5225","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5225","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T23:13:55.672Z","title":"LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the tools/tiffcp resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted BitsPerSample value.","description":"LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the tools/tiffcp resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted BitsPerSample value.","published":"2017-01-12T11:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:20:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119","CWE-122"],"affected":["libtiff/libtiff"],"epss":{"score":0.04391,"percentile":0.9126,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2656","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95413","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037911","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5c080298d59efa53264d7248bbe3a04660db6ef7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2656","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95413","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037911","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5c080298d59efa53264d7248bbe3a04660db6ef7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5225","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}