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CVE-2020-13113

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-13113 is a high-severity vulnerability in libexif versions prior to 0.6.22, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and OpenSUSE. It involves the use of uninitialized memory during EXIF Makernote handling, which can lead to application crashes and potential use-after-free conditions. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.2, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on availability and some impact on confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0189 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libexif-0:0.6.22-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libexif-0:0.6.22-4.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-13113Moderate

libexif: use of uninitialized memory in EXIF Makernote handling can lead to crashes and use-after-free

May 16, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / libexif/libexif/commit/ec412aa4583ad71ecabb967d3c77162760169d1f
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-05
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4396-1
Third Party Advisory