CVE-2018-7712

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-7712 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenCV 3.4.1, specifically within the validateInputImageSize function. This flaw, rated High severity (CVSS 7.5), can be triggered remotely without authentication, leading to an assertion failure due to oversized image dimensions. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:opencv:opencv:3.4.1:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.28%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

81.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0228 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-7712Low

opencv: assertion failure in validateInputImageSize function in modules/imgcodecs/src/loadsave.cpp

Mar 5, 2018

References

github.com / opencv/opencv/issues/10998

github.com / xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/opencv/dos-by-assert

Third Party Advisory