CVE-2019-9143

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-674

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

exiv2: 0.27

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107161
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/711
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/uncontrolled-recursion-loop-in-exiv2imageprinttiffstructure-exiv2-0-27/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107161
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/711
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/uncontrolled-recursion-loop-in-exiv2imageprinttiffstructure-exiv2-0-27/

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