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CVE-2018-8977

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8977 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Exiv2 version 0.26, specifically within the Exiv2::Internal::printCsLensFFFF function. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker through user interaction with a crafted file, leading to invalid memory access and system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0217 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 (2)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-8977Low

exiv2: invalid memory access in Exiv2::Internal::printCsLensFFFF function in canonmn_int.cpp

Mar 23, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2101
github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/247
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-14
Third Party Advisory