6.5

CVE-2023-29407: fedoraproject fedora Excessive Iteration

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-29407DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29407GHSA-j3p8-6mrq-6g7h
Published 02-08-2023Last modified 13-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-29407 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Excessive Iteration vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.87%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-08-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A maliciously-crafted image can cause excessive CPU consumption in decoding. A tiled image with a height of 0 and a very large width can cause excessive CPU consumption, despite the image size (width * height) appearing to be zero.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.87%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

58%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.87% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.87%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • golang-golang-x-imageAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.11.0-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Golang1 product
Golang.org/x1 product
  • image< 0.10.0
Golang.org/x/image1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • golang-golang-x-imageAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 6 products

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