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    CVE-2018-20030

    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.

    Published:Dec 20, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Feb 20, 2019
    EPSS Score:0.01058
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Libexif Project
    Product
    Libexif

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-147 XML Ping of the Death
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-227 Sustained Client Engagement
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-40386 (CVSS 4) — In libexif through 0.6.25, an integer underflow in size checking for Fuji and Olympus MakerNote decoding could…
    CVE-2026-40385 (CVSS 4) — In libexif through 0.6.25, an unsigned 32bit integer overflow in Nikon MakerNote handling could be used by loc…
    CVE-2026-32775 (CVSS 7.4) — libexif through 0.6.25 has a flaw in decoding MakerNotes. If the exif_mnote_data_get_value function gets passe…
    CVE-2020-0198 (CVSS 7.5) — In exif_data_load_data_content of exif-data.c, there is a possible UBSAN abort due to an integer overflow. Thi…
    CVE-2020-0181 (CVSS 7.5) — In exif_data_load_data_thumbnail of exif-data.c, there is a possible denial of service due to an integer overf…
    CVE-2020-13113 (CVSS 8.2) — An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. Use of uninitialized memory in EXIF Makernote handling could…
    CVE-2020-13114 (CVSS 7.5) — An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data c…
    CVE-2020-13112 (CVSS 9.1) — An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. Several buffer over-reads in EXIF MakerNote handling could l…
    CVE-2020-0093 (CVSS 5) — In exif_data_save_data_entry of exif-data.c, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds ch…
    CVE-2020-12767 (CVSS 5.5) — exif_entry_get_value in exif-entry.c in libexif 0.6.21 has a divide-by-zero error.…

    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
    https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
    https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
    https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
    https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    High
    Availability
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