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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-9143

It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 2.77%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.77%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS 3.0
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.77% probability · 85th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-674
Affected
exiv2/exiv2
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.