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CVE-2018-25009
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1 in GetLE16().
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1 in GetLE16().
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% 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: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
libwebp
- affected libwebp 1.0.1
References
3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956917 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9100 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+/95fd65070662e01cc9170c4444f5c0859a710097 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2018-13790 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-25009)Record last updated .