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Vulnerability details: VCID-tmff-7vrs-sqfx
Vulnerability ID VCID-tmff-7vrs-sqfx
Aliases CVE-2020-35457
Summary GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented
Status Disputed
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
epss 0.0019 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-35457
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-35457
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/63c5b62f0a984fac9a9700b12f54fe878e016a5d
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2197
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/releases/2.65.3
CVE-2020-35457 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35457
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.40773
EPSS Score 0.0019
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-03T12:29:53.196801+00:00 NVD CVE Status Improver Improve https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2020-35457 38.1.0
2026-04-01T16:34:22.724375+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0