THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-12211
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-12211

Freeimage vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.2%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a tiff file, it will be handed to the Load function of the PluginTIFF.cpp file, but a memcpy occurs in which the destination address and the size of the copied data are not considered, resulting in a heap overflow.
Affected vendor
Freeimage Project
Affected product
Freeimage
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-05-20

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.2% 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-2019-12211

  • Confirm whether Freeimage Project Freeimage is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-12211.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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