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
- 9.8(medium)
- EG Risk
- 50(Track)EG Risk 50/100SSVC: Track
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%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 2%
- EPSS %ILE
- 82%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 21, 2021
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Aug 15, 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(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / 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 | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | 0.6.1-2 | 0.6.1-2+deb10u1 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — | 0.6.1-2.1 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — | 0.6.1-2.1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — | 0.6.1-2.1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | — | 0.6.1-2.1 | — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| libwebp | 0.5.2-1 | 0.5.2-1+deb9u1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(8)
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.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2020-363292021-05-25
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.
- 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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