CVE-2020-27818

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0. An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 3.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120 CWE-125

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Dec 8, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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