What is CVE-2019-13112?

CVE-2019-13112 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exiv2, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-13112?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Exiv2

CVE-2019-13112

A PngChunk::parseChunkContent uncontrolled memory allocation in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash due to an std::bad_alloc exception) via a crafted PNG image file.

Published 2019-06-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Exiv2
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux — versions 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 30

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/845 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/846 (Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4056-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13112?: CVE-2019-13112 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exiv2, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-13112?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.