CVE-2018-5772: EXIV2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file.

Affected products

• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2018-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.