CVE-2026-45696CWE-122

OpenEXR HTJ2K decoder heap buffer over-read in ht_undo_impl() (DoS)

High · published June 18, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.0
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, the HTJ2K (High-Throughput JPEG 2000) decoder, ht_undo_impl() in OpenEXRCore is vulnerable to a heap-buffer-overflow READ. The ht_undo_imp function copies decoded pixels out of a per-line OpenJPH buffer using the EXR channel's declared width as the iteration count. The codestream embedded in the EXR chunk can declare different (smaller) tile/line dimensions than the EXR header advertises, but ht_undo_impl() does not validate this — it pulls width 32-bit samples from cur_line->i32[] without checking the OpenJPH line buffer's actual length. A crafted EXR file produces a 4-byte heap-buffer-overflow READ immediately after a buffer allocated by ojph::local::codestream::finalize_alloc(). The bug is reachable through the standard scanline-decode entry point used by every consumer of exr_decoding_run/Imf::checkOpenEXRFile, including thumbnailers, asset pipelines, and the exrcheck utility — i.e. any application that opens untrusted EXR files. The result is a deterministic crash (DoS) and potential adjacent-heap leak. This issue has been fixed in version 3.4.12.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
EPSS
0.00418 · 35.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-06-18T20:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 20:31Z
    OpenEXR HTJ2K decoder heap buffer over-read in ht_undo_impl() (DoS)
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