VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-1999

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.95%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-06-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

There exists a use after free/double free in libwebp. An attacker can use the ApplyFiltersAndEncode() function and loop through to free best.bw and assign best = trial pointer. The second loop will then return 0 because of an Out of memory error in VP8 encoder, the pointer is still assigned to trial and the AddressSanitizer will attempt a double free.

Weakness classification

  • cve-coordination@google.com: CWE-416
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-415

Primary references