CVE-2017-9239

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.026 · 85 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.63% (85th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-369USprimary

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 16.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 18.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 18.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
exiv2 exiv2= 0.26nvdUScpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI exiv2all versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/exiv2

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

PYSEC-2017-1122017-05-26vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-05-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (17)

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