What is CVE-2020-14152?

CVE-2020-14152 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ijg Libjpeg, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2020-06-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-14152?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-14152 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Ijg Libjpeg

CVE-2020-14152

In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) before 9d, jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2020-06-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ijg Libjpeg
Debian Linux — versions 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

bugs.gentoo.org/727908 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9d.tar.gz (Product)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00033.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14152?: CVE-2020-14152 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ijg Libjpeg, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2020-06-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-14152?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-14152 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.