CVE-2021-3575

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 04 Mar 2022, 17:20
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 19:25

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
41/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.33% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Mar 2022, 17:20
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 19:25
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.33%• Percentile: 56%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

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

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    33 | 34

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0

  • uclouvain•openjpeg

    ≤ 2.4.0

References (6)