THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-1382
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-1382

Libpng vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.5%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01 through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialized memory.
Affected vendor
Libpng
Affected product
Libpng
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-04-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-1382

  • Confirm whether Libpng Libpng is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-1382.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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