CVE-2020-18898

Exp

A stack exhaustion issue in the printIFDStructure function of Exiv2 0.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via a crafted file.

Published: 2021-08-19 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2020-18898 is rated Exploit Available (56.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.22%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2020-18898

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-18898

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 2025-11-21 0.31% 0.22% -0.09%
2 2025-11-18 0.16% 0.31% +0.15%
3 2025-06-19 — 0.16% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-18898

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]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-18898

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-18898

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2020-18898 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (exiv2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-18898
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18898
suse medium CVE-2020-18898 severity moderate: SUSE including 17 source package names (compat-exiv2-026-0.26-7.el8, exiv2, …), 115 product×package rows across 55 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (55 product lines)): Fixed 66, Known Not Affected 49. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18898/
ubuntu negligible CVE-2020-18898 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (exiv2), 11 status rows across 11 suites (bionic, focal, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 6, ignored 3, DNE 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-18898

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-18898

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
exiv2 exiv2 0.27 cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.27:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-18898

URL Tags
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/741 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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