CVE-2018-20030

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0.6.21 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20030

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20030.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.6.22-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.6.21-5.1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.6.21-5.1
debian debianforkyfixed0.6.21-5.1
debian debiansidfixed0.6.21-5.1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.6.21-5.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.