What is CVE-2020-13114?

CVE-2020-13114 is a high-severity vulnerability in Libexif Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-05-21.

How severe is CVE-2020-13114?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Libexif Project

CVE-2020-13114

An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data could lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time for decoding EXIF data.

Published 2020-05-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libexif Project
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/e6a38a1a23ba94d139b1fa2cd4519fdcfe3c9bab (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4396-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-13114?: CVE-2020-13114 is a high-severity vulnerability in Libexif Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-05-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-13114?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.