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CVE-2018-20030

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Date: February 20, 2019

An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0.6.21 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20030

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20030

Url: https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-20030

Url: https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20030

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-20030

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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