Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2019-17402

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17402 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Exiv2 versions 0.27.2 and various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. It allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (crash) in the Exiv2 library by crafting a malicious image file due to insufficient validation of size and offset relationships. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) to process the malicious file, but its impact is limited to availability (A:H) with no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.27.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.27.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0185 is in the 88th 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 (7)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 0.27.5-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17009-16823Fixed in: 0.27.5-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 exiv2 0.27.5-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.27.5-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 0.27.5-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.0-3.el7_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: exiv2-0:0.27.3-2.el8
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: compat-exiv2-026

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2022-Jan/CVE-2019-17402

CVE-2019-17402

Jan 11, 2022
microsoft2019-Oct/CVE-2019-17402Moderate

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Oct 8, 2019
redhatCVE-2019-17402Low

exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check

Oct 6, 2019

References

github.com / Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1019
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00001.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4159-1
Third Party Advisory