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CVE-2018-14048

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14048 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting libpng 1.6.34 and related products like Oracle JDK and JRE. It involves a segmentation fault (SEGV) in the png_free_data function within png.c, triggered by improper error handling during image reading. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this remotely with low complexity, leading to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.6.0:update201:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update191:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.8.0:update181:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:11.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0324 is in the 94th 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 (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-14048Low

libpng: Segmentation fault in png.c:png_free_data function causing denial of service

Jul 12, 2018

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
github.com / fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / glennrp/libpng/issues/238
ExploitThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Apr/30
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-02
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
Patch