THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-0408
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-0408

Libpng vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
5.6%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected vendor
Libpng
Affected product
Libpng
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2011-01-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 5.6% 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-2011-0408

  • Confirm whether Libpng Libpng is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-0408.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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