High severity · published Jun 8, 2021
CVE-2021-23169
A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1
8.8
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A heap-buffer overflow was found in the copyIntoFrameBuffer function of OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.1. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application compiled against OpenEXR.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34 · source: NVD
OP
Openexr · Openexr
before 3.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23169
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23169
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947612
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KYNJSMVA6YJY5NMKDZ5SAISKZG2KCKC/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BXFLD4ZAXKAIWO6ZPBCQEEDZB5IG676K/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-31
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