CVE-2026-44663CWE-190CWE-787

OpenEXR: Integer overflow in the HTJ2K decoder leads to heap-buffer-overflow

Medium · published June 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.11, an integer overflow in ht_undo_impl() in src/lib/OpenEXRCore/internal_ht.cpp leads to a heap-buffer overflow when decoding a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR file. decode->channels[i].width (int32_t) is multiplied by bytes_per_element in 32-bit signed arithmetic. With large widths (e.g., >= 536870912 for FLOAT data), this overflows, producing a corrupted offset that is later used for pointer arithmetic and can cause a heap out-of-bounds write. The same unchecked multiplication pattern appears in two other HTJ2K paths (bytes-per-line accumulation and pixel-line pointer advancement). As with related CVE-2026-34378 through CVE-2026-34589 fixes in other codecs, validating only after the multiplication is too late because the value may already be overflowed. This issue has been fixed in version 3.4.12.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00211 · 10.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-06-18T20:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 20:20Z
    OpenEXR: Integer overflow in the HTJ2K decoder leads to heap-buffer-overflow
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