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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-35522

A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort, resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.57%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In LibTIFF, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_pixarlog.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort, resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.57% probability · 75th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
libtiff/libtiff · netapp/ontap select deploy administration utility · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.57%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.