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CVE-2017-18238

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18238 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Exempi versions prior to 2.4.4, including Debian Linux distributions. An attacker can trigger an infinite loop by providing specially crafted XMP data within a .qt file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with user interaction required, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exempi_project:exempi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0143 is in the 81st 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exempi-0:2.2.0-9.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-18238Low

exempi: Infinite loop in TradQT_Manager::ParseCachedBoxes function in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/QuickTime_Support.cpp

Mar 20, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2048
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue Tracking
cgit.freedesktop.org / exempi/commit
Patch
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3668-1