CVE-2020-27823

HIGH

Uclouvain Openjpeg < 2.4.0 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905762

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-120 CWE-787
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
uclouvain/openjpeg < 2.4.0
Published May 13, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026