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CVE-2018-10998

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10998 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Exiv2 version 0.26, specifically within the readMetadata function of jp2image.cpp, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, Exiv2, and Red Hat. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely without authentication by an attacker, requiring user interaction, leading to a SIGABRT crash and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*
17.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0247 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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 (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10998Low

exiv2: SIGABRT by triggering an incorrect Safe::add call

May 9, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2101
Third Party Advisory
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/303
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.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