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CVE-2020-24890

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libraw 20.0 has a null pointer dereference vulnerability in parse_tiff_ifd in src/metadata/tiff.cpp, which may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution. Note: this vulnerability occurs only if you compile the software in a certain way

Affected products

• LibRaw: 0.20.0

References

• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/335
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWHUZCRMGOC3QS6C65KWBM6ZJM25V6HI/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-05
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/335
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWHUZCRMGOC3QS6C65KWBM6ZJM25V6HI/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-05

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