CVE-2020-35524
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.48%
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
How to fix CVE-2020-35524
To remediate CVE-2020-35524, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tiff—upgrade to 4.2.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.1.0+git201212-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-35524 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.2.0-r0
- from 0, < 4.1.0+git201212-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |