CVE-2010-1205

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-02. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Weaponized
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit code is available (Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 43%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Buffer overflow in pngpread.c in libpng before 1.2.44 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3, as used in progressive applications, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG image that triggers an additional data row.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
43%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 30, 2010

Last Modified

April 29, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Patch available.

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2010-1205(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibpng12-0 (1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.3) @ hardy2026-05-20ubuntu
ubuntuxulrunner-1.9.2 (1.9.2.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) @ lucid2026-05-20ubuntu
ubuntuxulrunner-1.9.2 (1.9.2.7+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.2) @ karmic2026-05-20ubuntu
ubuntuthunderbird (3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) @ lucid2026-05-20ubuntu
redhatseamonkey-0:1.0.9-60.el42010-07-21redhat
redhatxulrunner-0:1.9.2.7-2.el52010-07-21redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:2.0.0.24-6.el52010-07-21redhat
redhatlibpng-2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.32010-07-14redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:5.0(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libpng1.2.27-2, 1.2.27-2+lenny2, 1.2.27-2+lenny3
  • every version up to 1.2.27-2+lenny4: fixed in 1.2.27-2+lenny4
—
xulrunner1.9.0.10-1 ... 1.9.0.9-1 (22 versions)
  • every version up to 1.9.0.19-3: fixed in 1.9.0.19-3
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tuxonice-userui0.7.2+clean-3, 0.7.2+clean-4, 0.7.3-1
  • every version up to 1.0-1: fixed in 1.0-1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tuxonice-userui0.7.2+clean-3, 0.7.2+clean-4, 0.7.3-1
  • every version up to 1.0-1: fixed in 1.0-1
—

Additional Vendor Advisories

(6)

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 83 of 127 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 17 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 44 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  1. 2026-08-26 14:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 43% · 98th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-14422✓ verified
    Published Jul 20, 2010

    libpng 1.4.2 - Denial of Service

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmk219533/CVE-2010-1205
    Published Sep 14, 2010

    sample exploit of buffer overflow in libpng

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2010-1205?
CVE-2010-1205 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 30, 2010. Buffer overflow in pngpread.c in libpng before 1.2.44 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3, as used in progressive applications, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG image that triggers an additional data row.
When was CVE-2010-1205 made public?
CVE-2010-1205 was made public on June 28, 2010: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 30, 2010. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 29, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2010-1205 actively exploited?
CVE-2010-1205 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 43% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2010-1205?
CVE-2010-1205 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2010-1205?
A fix for CVE-2010-1205 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2010-1205 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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