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CVE-2022-2520

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2520 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting libtiff 4.4.0rc1, specifically impacting Debian Linux distributions. This flaw, a sysmalloc assertion failure in the rotateImage() function, can lead to a program crash when processing a specially crafted input file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in high availability impact. 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
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0094 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libtiff-0:4.0.9-26.el8_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: libtiff-0:4.4.0-5.el9_1
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: compat-libtiff3

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-2520Low

libtiff: Assertion fail in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c

May 22, 2022

References

gitlab.com / libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com / libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5333
Third Party Advisory