CVE detail

CVE-2020-27818 — CVE-2020-27818

Published 2020-12-08 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor libpng · Product pngcheck · Source nvd

LOW

severity

CVSS-derived band

3.3

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0121

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

66.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A flaw was found in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0. An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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