What is CVE-2020-27829?

CVE-2020-27829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2020-27829?

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

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2020-27829

A heap based buffer overflow in coders/tiff.c may result in program crash and denial of service in ImageMagick before 7.0.10-45.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (65.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick
N/a Imagemagick — versions ImageMagick 7.0.10-45

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-27829?: CVE-2020-27829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2020-27829?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.