Security News > 2023 > September > Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library
On Thursday, researchers from security firm Rezillion published evidence that they said made it "Highly likely" both indeed stemmed from the same bug, specifically in libwebp, the code library that apps, operating systems, and other code libraries incorporate to process WebP images.
Rather than Apple, Google, and Citizen Lab coordinating and accurately reporting the common origin of the vulnerability, they chose to use a separate CVE designation, the researchers said.
The researchers concluded that "Millions of different applications" would remain vulnerable until they, too, incorporated the libwebp fix.
That, in turn, they said, was preventing automated systems that developers use to track known vulnerabilities in their offerings from detecting a critical vulnerability that's under active exploitation.
News URL
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/critical-vulnerability-in-libwebp-library.html
Related news
- Microsoft Patches Critical Azure AI Face Service Vulnerability with CVSS 9.9 Score (source)
- Elastic Releases Urgent Fix for Critical Kibana Vulnerability Enabling Remote Code Execution (source)
- Moxa Issues Fix for Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in PT Switches (source)
- Critical PHP RCE vulnerability mass exploited in new attacks (source)
- New Critical AMI BMC Vulnerability Enables Remote Server Takeover and Bricking (source)
- IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX (source)
- Critical Veeam Backup & Replication RCE vulnerability fixed, patch ASAP! (CVE-2025-23120) (source)
- Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist (source)
- Critical Next.js Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Middleware Authorization Checks (source)
- Critical Next.js auth bypass vulnerability opens web apps to compromise (CVE-2025-29927) (source)