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CVE-2018-14550
An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- NuGetlibpngGHSA-qwwr-qc2p-6283 (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- GLSA-201908-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/246 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng#stack-buffer-overflow-in-png2pnm-in-function-get_token (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-0701 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qwwr-qc2p-6283 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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