What is CVE-2020-21573?

CVE-2020-21573 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Image-Processing Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-11-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-21573?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Image-Processing Project

CVE-2020-21573

An issue was discoverered in in abhijitnathwani image-processing v0.1.0, allows local attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2021-11-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Image-Processing Project — versions 0.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com/abhijitnathwani/image-processing/issues/3 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-21573?: CVE-2020-21573 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Image-Processing Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-11-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-21573?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.