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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-10780 json

Exiv2::Image::byteSwap2 in image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has a heap-based buffer over-read.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-0050

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Exiv2::Image::byteSwap2 in image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has a heap-based buffer over-read.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10780 updated cvss 3.3

exiv2: heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::Image::byteSwap2 function in image.cpp

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 exiv2, exiv2-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575201 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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