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CVE-2019-9143

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9143 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Exiv2 version 0.27, stemming from infinite recursion in the printTiffStructure function. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this by providing a specially crafted file, leading to a segmentation fault and potential system unavailability. Rated 8.8 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no authentication (PR:N). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 14,825 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.0-2.el7_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.2-5.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gegl-0:0.2.0-39.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-color-manager-0:3.28.0-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libgexiv2-0:0.10.8-4.el8
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-9143Low

exiv2: infinite recursion in Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in file image.cpp resulting in denial of service

Feb 21, 2019

References

github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/711
ExploitThird Party Advisory
research.loginsoft.com / bugs/uncontrolled-recursion-loop-in-exiv2imageprinttiffstructure-exiv2-0-27
ExploitThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107161
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry