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CVE-2017-18235

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18235 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Exempi versions prior to 2.4.3. Specifically, the VPXChunk class fails to validate image dimensions, allowing an attacker to crash the application by providing a specially crafted .webp file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating it can be triggered locally with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exempi_project:exempi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0107 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-18235Low

exempi: assertion failure in VPXChunk class in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/WEBP_Support.cpp

Jul 25, 2017

References

bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
cgit.freedesktop.org / exempi/commit
Patch