Resource exhaustion in OpenEXR - CVE-2021-3478
Published: April 6, 2021 / Updated: May 18, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU51933
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3478
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenEXR
Affected software:
OpenEXR
OpenEXR
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the scanline input file functionality. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted file, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2021-3478
Install updates from vendor's website.