CVE-2016-1924

Openjpeg vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

The opj_tgt_reset function in OpenJpeg 2016.1.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image.

Affected vendor

Uclouvain

Affected product

Openjpeg

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2016-01-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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