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
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107161Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/712Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/uncontrolled-recursion-loop-in-exiv2anonymous-namespacebigtiffimageprintifd-exiv2-0-27/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107161Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/712Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/uncontrolled-recursion-loop-in-exiv2anonymous-namespacebigtiffimageprintifd-exiv2-0-27/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.