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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-12882 in the critical feed json

exif_read_from_impl in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP 7.2.x through 7.2.7 allows attackers to trigger a use-after-free (in exif_read_from_file) bec…

published 2018-06-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-4835

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.5%
EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

exif_read_from_impl in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP 7.2.x through 7.2.7 allows attackers to trigger a use-after-free (in exif_read_from_file) because it closes a stream that it is not responsible for closing. The vulnerable code is reachable through the PHP exif_read_data function.

Patch / fix

  • php7.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12882

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +8 more 7.2.34-150000.4.103.1
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.38.1
  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.3.17-112.28.1
  • php7 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 7.2.5-4.3.1
  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-50.41.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1SUSE-SU-2018:2682-1SUSE-SU-2018:2044-1SUSE-SU-2018:1936-1SUSE-SU-2018:1936-2SUSE-SU-2018:1886-1

  • php7 openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.4.24-1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.11-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11167-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11169-1

  • php7 Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 +5 more 7.2.8-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-12882

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-12882 updated cvss 6.3

php: Use-after-free reachable via the exif.c:exif_read_from_impl() function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 php, libzip, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, +30 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php70-php, rh-php71-php, rh-php70-php-gd, rh-php71-php-gd, rh-php70-php-cli, rh-php70-php-dba, +52 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-027-02 updated cvss 9.8

Festo Didactic SE MES PC

  • Festo Didactic SE MES PC shipped_with_Windows_10
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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