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CVE-2018-19535

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19535 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Exiv2 versions 0.26 and earlier, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash the application via a heap-based buffer over-read by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PNG file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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 (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.0-2.el7_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.2-5.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gegl-0:0.2.0-39.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-color-manager-0:3.28.0-3.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libgexiv2-0:0.10.8-4.el8
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: exiv2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-19535Low

exiv2: heap-based buffer over-read in PngChunk::readRawProfile in pngchunk_int.cpp

Sep 1, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2101
Third Party Advisory
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/428
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/pull/430
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4056-1
Third Party Advisory