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CVE-2020-35538

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-35538 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting libjpeg-turbo, where a specially crafted input file can lead to a null pointer dereference in the jcopy_sample_rows() function. This local vulnerability requires user interaction and could result in a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libjpeg-turbo:libjpeg-turbo:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 23rd percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (10)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19090-16820Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19091-16823Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 libjpeg-turbo 2.1.4-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 libjpeg-turbo 2.1.4-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 2.1.4-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 2.1.4-1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libjpeg-turbo

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2020-35538

CVE-2020-35538

Sep 13, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2020-35538

A crafted input file could cause a null pointer dereference in jcopy_sample_rows() when processed by libjpeg-turbo.

Aug 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2020-35538Low

libjpeg-turbo: Null pointer dereference in jcopy_sample_rows() function

Jul 6, 2020

References

github.com / libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/9120a247436e84c0b4eea828cb11e8f665fcde30
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/441
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory