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🛡️ GHSA-g4m4-9q4c-mfw6 — fiona (CVE-2020-14152)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Fiona affected by CVE-2020-14152 related to madler-zlib

Summary

Vulnerability scan of fiona shows [CVE-2020-14152](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14152). The vulnerability is in libjpeg, a transitive dependency of fiona (via GDAL and PROJ).

Details

In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) before 9d, jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

Impact

fiona will not open JPEG files and is not vulnerable to attack in that way. fiona might be vulnerable to malformed PROJ grid files using JPEG compression. No such vulnerability or compromise has been demonstrated.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-g4m4-9q4c-mfw6 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

GHSA-g4m4-9q4c-mfw6 is recorded against 1 package.

  • fiona (fixed in 1.10b2)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 July 2024 and last revised on 1 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-07-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fiona 1.10b2

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