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CVE-2018-12265

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12265 is a high-severity integer overflow vulnerability in Exiv2 0.26, affecting various distributions of Exiv2 and Linux, including Canonical and Debian. This flaw leads to an out-of-bounds read, potentially allowing remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.8, there is currently no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and no evidence of active exploitation. Furthermore, the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0289 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.0-2.el7_6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: exiv2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-12265Low

exiv2: integer overflow in the LoaderExifJpeg class in preview.cpp

Jun 11, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2101
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/365
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/exiv2/1-out-of-read-Poc
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-14
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3700-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4238
Third Party Advisory