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CVE-2018-10958

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10958 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Exiv2 version 0.26, where a large size value during a zlibUncompress call can lead to a SIGABRT due to memory allocation issues. This affects various distributions of Exiv2, including those found in Canonical and Debian Linux. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and primarily impacts availability. 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
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

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
2.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0252 is in the 92nd 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

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
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: exiv2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10958Low

exiv2: SIGABRT caused by memory allocation in types.cpp:Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::zlibUncompress()

May 9, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2101
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/302
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird 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