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CVE-2019-17546

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17546 is a high-severity integer overflow vulnerability in LibTIFF (versions through 4.0.10), also affecting products like GDAL (through 3.0.1). This flaw can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow when processing a specially crafted RGBA image. With a CVSS score of 8.8, successful exploitation could result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but no authentication. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:gdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0336 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libtiff-0:4.0.3-35.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libtiff-0:4.0.9-18.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17546Moderate

libtiff: integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in tif_getimage.c

Aug 15, 2019

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20241220-0007
bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Third Party Advisory
github.com / OSGeo/gdal/commit/21674033ee246f698887604c7af7ba1962a40ddf
PatchThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com / libtiff/libtiff/commit/4bb584a35f87af42d6cf09d15e9ce8909a839145
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00027.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00020.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LM5ZW7E3IEW7LT2BPJP7D3RN6OUOE3MX
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M3S4WNIMZ7XSLY2LD5FPRPZMGNUBVKOG
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/32
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-25
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4608
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4670