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CVE-2017-11338

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-11338 describes an infinite loop vulnerability in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function within Exiv2 0.26, allowing a crafted input to trigger a remote denial of service. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is currently 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
0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: exiv2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exiv2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-11338Low

exiv2: Infinite loop in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure

Jul 14, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking