THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-14498
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-14498

Libjpeg Turbo vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
get_8bit_row in rdbmp.c in libjpeg-turbo through 1.5.90 and MozJPEG through 3.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted 8-bit BMP in which one or more of the color indices is out of range for the number of palette entries.
Affected vendor
Libjpeg Turbo
Affected product
Libjpeg Turbo
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-03-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-14498

  • Confirm whether Libjpeg Turbo Libjpeg Turbo is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-14498.
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