What is CVE-2020-6610?

CVE-2020-6610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Libredwg, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-01-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-6610?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GNU Libredwg

CVE-2020-6610

GNU LibreDWG 0.9.3.2564 has an attempted excessive memory allocation in read_sections_map in decode_r2007.c.

Published 2020-01-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (70.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNU Libredwg — versions 0.9.3.2564
openSUSE Backports — versions sle-15
openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/issues/179 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00046.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00052.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-6610?: CVE-2020-6610 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Libredwg, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-01-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-6610?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.