CVE-2020-18900

LOW 3.3CVE-2020-18900 · Published 19/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-18900 is a LOW (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability affecting libexe (libexe project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.32%, higher than 25.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 20181128 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libexe libexe_project	`< 20181128`	`20181128`

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in the libexe_io_handle_read_coff_optional_header function of libyal libexe before 20181128. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in libyal/libexe issue 1 on GitHub

References

libyal/libexe · Exploit

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