CVE-2018-11037

Publication date 14 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, the Exiv2::PngImage::printStructure function in pngimage.cpp allows remote attackers to cause an information leak via a crafted file.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream has closed this CVE as they could not reproduce it. marking as ignored.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11037

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