Vulnerability · Published May 18, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-23851
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 46.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in ffjpeg through 2020-07-02 in the jfif_decode(void *ctxt, BMP *pb) function at ffjpeg/src/jfif.c:513:28, which could cause a denial of service by submitting a malicious jpeg image.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/rockcarry/ffjpeg/issues/27 x_refsource_MISC