CVE-2018-17057

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 2022-10-06. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2022-7027 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

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 or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 26%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An issue was discovered in TCPDF before 6.2.22. Attackers can trigger deserialization of arbitrary data via the phar:// wrapper.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): 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
26%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
26% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

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.

The score's inputs: 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

September 14, 2018

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
Web page

Full Disclosure: CVE-2018-17057: phar deserialization in TCPDF might lead to RCE

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/36
Web page

LimeSurvey < 3.16 - Remote Code Execution - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46634/
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 1861e33fe05f (tecnickcom/TCPDF)

Patch available: tecnickcom/TCPDF 7.0.8 (contains commit 1861e33fe05f)

https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF/commit/1861e33fe05f653b67d070f7c106463e7a5c26ed
GitHub commit

commit 1cdd78d27697 (LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey)

Fix landed in LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey commit 1cdd78d27697 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/1cdd78d27697b3150bb44aaa7af1a81062a591a5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-17057(1)

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

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
composerfooman/tcpdf @ 6.2.22 (fixes < 6.2.22)—ghsa

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

(8 across 5 ecosystems)
Packagist(4)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
fooman/tcpdf6.0.013 ... 6.2.9 (103 versions)
  • every version up to 6.2.22: fixed in 6.2.22
—
la-haute-societe/tcpdf6.0.013 ... 6.2.9 (104 versions)
  • every version up to 6.2.22: fixed in 6.2.22
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spoonity/tcpdf6.0.013 ... 6.2.9 (102 versions)
  • every version up to 6.2.22: fixed in 6.2.22
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tecnickcom/tcpdf6.0.013 ... 6.2.9 (108 versions)
  • every version up to 6.2.22: fixed in 6.2.22
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tcpdf—
  • every version up to 6.2.26+dfsg-1: fixed in 6.2.26+dfsg-1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tcpdf—
  • every version up to 6.2.26+dfsg-1: fixed in 6.2.26+dfsg-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tcpdf—
  • every version up to 6.2.26+dfsg-1: fixed in 6.2.26+dfsg-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tcpdf—
  • every version up to 6.2.26+dfsg-1: fixed in 6.2.26+dfsg-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)

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 its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). 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). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 217 rows 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 117 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  3. 2026-11-12 13:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  5. 2026-11-11 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  15. 2026-11-07 21:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-11-06 23:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  21. 2026-11-06 01:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  24. 2026-11-05 02:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  5. 2026-11-03 06:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  8. 2026-11-02 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  10. 2026-11-01 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5hw4-m7f3-hhx8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

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

  • Exploit-DBEDB-46634
    Published Apr 2, 2019

    LimeSurvey < 3.16 - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2018-17057?
CVE-2018-17057 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 14, 2018. An issue was discovered in TCPDF before 6.2.22. Attackers can trigger deserialization of arbitrary data via the phar:// wrapper.
When was CVE-2018-17057 made public?
CVE-2018-17057 was made public on September 14, 2018: 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 September 14, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-17057 actively exploited?
CVE-2018-17057 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-17057?
CVE-2018-17057 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2018-17057?
A fix for CVE-2018-17057 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2018-17057 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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