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CVE-2018-14047

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue has been found in PNGwriter 0.7.0. It is a SEGV in pngwriter::readfromfile in pngwriter.cc. NOTE: there is a "Warning: PNGwriter was never designed for reading untrusted files with it. Do NOT use this in sensitive environments, especially DO NOT read PNGs from unknown sources with it!" statement in the master/README.md file

Affected products

• Pngwriter Project Pngwriter: 0.7.0

References

• https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pngwriter
• https://github.com/pngwriter/pngwriter/issues/129
• https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pngwriter
• https://github.com/pngwriter/pngwriter/issues/129

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