Medium severity · published Jan 28, 2019
CVE-2019-6988
An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0
6.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openjpeg · Uclouvain
2.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6988
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6988
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106785
Exploit
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1178
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