CVE-2020-22219

CRITICALNVD 7.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-08-22. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 2.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function bitwriter_grow_ in flac before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code via crafted input to the encoder.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
55th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 22, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 23, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5500-1] flac security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5500
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: flac-1.3.4-3.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZD2AJTU4PCJQP7HPTS2L2ELJWBASCRGD/
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 3581-1] flac security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00028.html
Web page

wild-addr-write found by fuzz · Issue #215 · xiph/flac · GitHub

https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/215

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-22219(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(9)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibflac8 (1.3.3-2ubuntu0.2) @ jammy2026-10-23ubuntu
ubuntulibflac8 (1.3.1-4ubuntu0.1~esm2) @ xenial2026-10-23ubuntu
redhatflac-0:1.3.3-10.el9_2.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.3-9.el9_0.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_8.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_2.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_4.12023-09-11redhat
redhatflac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_6.12023-09-11redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
flac1.3.2-3, 1.3.2-3+deb10u1, 1.3.2-3+deb10u2
  • every version up to 1.3.2-3+deb10u3: fixed in 1.3.2-3+deb10u3
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
flac1.3.3-2, 1.3.3-2+deb11u1
  • every version up to 1.3.3-2+deb11u2: fixed in 1.3.3-2+deb11u2
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
flac—
  • every version up to 1.4.1-1: fixed in 1.4.1-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
flac—
  • every version up to 1.4.1-1: fixed in 1.4.1-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
flac—
  • every version up to 1.4.1-1: fixed in 1.4.1-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 60× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 219 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 122 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 06:49 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-23 06:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  5. 2026-10-22 06:35 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-22 06:35 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-22 06:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  9. 2026-10-21 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-21 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-21 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  13. 2026-10-20 06:04 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-20 06:04 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-20 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  17. 2026-10-19 05:47 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-19 05:47 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-19 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  21. 2026-10-18 05:32 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-18 05:32 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-18 05:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  25. 2026-10-17 05:17 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-17 05:17 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-17 05:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  4. 2026-10-16 05:01 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-16 05:01 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-16 05:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  8. 2026-10-15 03:29 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-15 03:29 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-15 03:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  12. 2026-10-13 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-13 23:38 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-13 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  16. 2026-10-12 19:42 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-12 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hvp4-qmrj-gvhf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-12 19:41 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  20. 2026-10-12 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-11 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
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  31. 2026-09-30 14:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
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  55. 2026-09-03 20:16 UTCOSV refresh
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-22219?
CVE-2020-22219 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 22, 2023. Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function bitwritergrow in flac before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code via crafted input to the encoder.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-22219 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-22219 was published on August 22, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-22219 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-22219 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (55th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-22219?
CVE-2020-22219 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-22219?
A fix for CVE-2020-22219 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-22219 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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