CVE-2017-12955

8.8 highEPSS 1.7%

High (8.8) in exiv2 exiv2. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-119, CWE-787
Published: 2017-08-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

exiv2:exiv2

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295

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