Medium severity · published Apr 14, 2020
CVE-2020-11761
An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1
5.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an out-of-bounds read during Huffman uncompression, as demonstrated by FastHufDecoder::refill in ImfFastHuf.cpp.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
iOS · Apple
before 13.6 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32 · source: NVD
IC
Icloud · Apple
before 7.20; 10.0 before 11.3 · source: NVD
IT
Itunes · Apple
before 12.10.8 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
before 10.15.6; 10.13.0 before 10.13.6; 10.14.0 before 10.14.6; 10.13.6; 10.13.6; 10.13.6; +20 more · source: NVD
OP
Openexr · Openexr
before 2.4.1 · source: NVD
TV
Tvos · Apple
before 13.4.8 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 19.10; 20.04 · source: NVD
WA
Watchos · Apple
before 6.2.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11761
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11761
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00051.html
Exploit
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1987
Release Notes
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/master/CHANGES.md#version-241-february-11-2020
Release Notes
https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/releases/tag/v2.4.1
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00056.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F4KFGDQG5PVYAU7TS5MZ7XCS6EMPVII3/
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