CVE-2018-14047: Pngwriter Project Pngwriter

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 0.7.0 only

Published 2018-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.