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CVE-2019-12211

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12211 describes a heap overflow vulnerability in FreeImage 3.18.0, specifically impacting its TIFF file parsing functionality, and affecting products like canonical freeimage and freeimage_project freeimage. The vulnerability, rated 7.5 HIGH, allows for remote unauthenticated attacks leading to high availability impact due to improper handling of memory during memcpy operations. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeimage_project:freeimage:3.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0421 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUWVVP67FYM4GMWD7TPQ7C7JPPRUZHYE
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZ7KBYPPNRMX7RRWVJSX4T63E3TFB6TG
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Dec/45
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202107-02
Third Party Advisory
sourceforge.net / p/freeimage/discussion/36111/thread/e06734bed5
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4529-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4593
Third Party Advisory