What is CVE-2018-20652?

CVE-2018-20652 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tinyexr Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-01-01.

How severe is CVE-2018-20652?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-20652 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Tinyexr Project

CVE-2018-20652

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function tinyexr::AllocateImage in tinyexr.h in tinyexr v0.9.5. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception.

EPSS: 0.015 (70.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Tinyexr_project Tinyexr — versions 0.9.5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20652?: CVE-2018-20652 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tinyexr Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-01-01.
How severe is CVE-2018-20652?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-20652 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.