CVE-2020-18651

Exp

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function ID3_Support::ID3v2Frame::getFrameValue in exempi 2.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of crafted audio file with ID3V2 frame.

Published: 2023-08-22 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-18651 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.23%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2020-18651

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-18651

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-02 2.69% 2.23% -0.47%
2 2026-03-15 2.43% 2.69% +0.26%
3 2026-01-31 2.43%

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-18651

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-18651

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-18651

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-18651 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (exempi), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-18651
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18651
suse medium CVE-2020-18651 severity moderate: SUSE including 8 source package names (exempi-2.4.5-4.el8, exempi-devel-2.4.5-4.el8, …), 28 product×package rows across 14 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4, … (14 product lines)): Fixed 28. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18651/
ubuntu medium CVE-2020-18651 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (exempi), 12 status rows across 12 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 8, needs-triage 2, ignored 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-18651

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-18651

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
exempi_project exempi <= 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:exempi_project:exempi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-18651

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