{"id":"CVE-2020-36138","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-36138","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:17:51.167Z","title":"An issue was discovered in decode_frame in libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg version 4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).","description":"An issue was discovered in decode_frame in libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg version 4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).","published":"2023-08-11T14:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:14:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["ffmpeg/ffmpeg"],"epss":{"score":0.01225,"percentile":0.68659,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/292e41ce650a7b5ca5de4ae87fff0d6a90d9fc97","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-November/272001.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8960","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/292e41ce650a7b5ca5de4ae87fff0d6a90d9fc97","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-November/272001.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8960","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36138","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}