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CVE-2020-19499

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in heif::Box_iref::get_references in libheif 1.4.0, allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or possibly other unspecified impact due to an invalid memory read.

Affected products

• strukturag libheif: 1.4.0

References

• https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd
• https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/138
• https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/f7399b62d7fbc596f1b2871578c1d2053bedf1dd
• https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/issues/138

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