CVE-2020-27841

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 05 Jan 2021, 17:18
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 16:25

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.36% LOW
0% probability +0.26%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jan 2021, 17:18
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 16:25
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c. When an attacker is able to provide crafted input to be processed by the openjpeg encoder, this could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest impact from this flaw is to application availability.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.36%• Percentile: 58%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

  • CWE-122•Heap-based Buffer Overflow

    A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0 | 10.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    32

  • oracle•outside_in_technology

    8.5.5

  • uclouvain•openjpeg

    < 2.4.0

References (7)