A flaw was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1. A use-after-free was found due to a thread being killed too early. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
CVE-2020-36329
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 50EG Risk 50/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation2% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).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
- 2.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 82nd
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
May 21, 2021
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Oct 4, 2026[SECURITY] [DLA 2672-1] libwebp security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00005.html1956843 – (CVE-2020-36329) CVE-2020-36329 libwebp: use-after-free in EmitFancyRGB() in dec/io_dec.c
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956843Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2021-07-21-1 iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jul/54About the security content of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212601[SECURITY] [DLA 2677-1] libwebp security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00006.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2020-36329(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHBA-2021:2854Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Containers (MTC) 1.4.6 release advisory
- CVE-2020-36329Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Critical
A flaw was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1. A use-after-free was found due to a thread being killed too early. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | webp (0.4.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ xenial | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libwebpdemux2 (0.6.1-2ubuntu0.21.04.1) @ hirsute | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| redhat | rhmtc/openshift-velero-plugin-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 | 2021-07-21 | redhat |
| redhat | libwebp-0:1.0.0-3.el8_4 | 2021-06-09 | redhat |
| redhat | libwebp-0:1.0.0-4.el8_1 | 2021-06-09 | redhat |
| redhat | libwebp-0:1.0.0-4.el8_2 | 2021-06-09 | redhat |
| redhat | qt5-qtimageformats-0:5.9.7-2.el7_9 | 2021-06-08 | redhat |
| redhat | libwebp-0:0.3.0-10.el7_9 | 2021-06-07 | redhat |
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
(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | 0.6.1-2 |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | 0.5.2-1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2260IMPORTANT2020-02-25
RHSA-2021:2260 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2328IMPORTANT2020-02-25
RHSA-2021:2328 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2354IMPORTANT2020-02-25
RHSA-2021:2354 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2364IMPORTANT2020-02-25
RHSA-2021:2364 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2021:2365IMPORTANT2020-02-25
RHSA-2021:2365 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-4971-1MEDIUM
libwebp vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-4971-2MEDIUM
libwebp vulnerabilities
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