What is CVE-2019-13568?

CVE-2019-13568 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cimg, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2019-13568?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Cimg

CVE-2019-13568

CImg through 2.6.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow in _load_bmp in CImg.h because of erroneous memory allocation for a malformed BMP image.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (77.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-26.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cimg

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cimg.eu/ (Product)
github.com/dtschump/CImg (Product)
github.com/dtschump/CImg/commit/ac8003393569aba51048c9d67e1491559877b1d1 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13568?: CVE-2019-13568 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cimg, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2019-13568?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.