THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-5652
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-5652

Libtiff vulnerability

CVSS
7.0
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.
Affected vendor
Libtiff
Affected product
Libtiff
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2017-01-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-5652

  • Confirm whether Libtiff Libtiff is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-5652.
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