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medium 5.5

CVE-2019-13960 json

In libjpeg-turbo 2.0.2, a large amount of memory can be used during processing of an invalid progressive JPEG image containing incorrect wi…

published 2019-07-18 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-5226

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In libjpeg-turbo 2.0.2, a large amount of memory can be used during processing of an invalid progressive JPEG image containing incorrect width and height values in the image header. NOTE: the vendor's expectation, for use cases in which this memory usage would be a denial of service, is that the application should interpret libjpeg warnings as fatal errors (aborting decompression) and/or set limits on resource consumption or image sizes

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-13960 updated cvss 4.0

libjpeg-turbo: denial of service due to incorrect width and height value of JPEG image

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libjpeg-turbo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 turbojpeg, libjpeg-turbo, libjpeg-turbo-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mingw32-libjpeg-turbo, mingw64-libjpeg-turbo
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • libjpeg-turbo.org https://libjpeg-turbo.org/pmwiki/uploads/About/TwoIssueswiththeJPEGStandard.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/337 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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