VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-20298

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.57%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's B44Compressor. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR, to exhaust all memory accessible to the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references