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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-9144

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

HIGH 8.8EPSS 2.78%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.78%). 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 BigTiffImage::printIFD in the file bigtiffimage.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
2.78% probability · 86th 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.