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CVE-2025-54874 (GCVE-0-2025-54874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-05 14:33 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49
VLAI
Title
OpenJPEG allows OOB heap memory write in opj_jp2_read_header
Summary
OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec. In OpenJPEG from 2.5.1 through 2.5.3, a call to opj_jp2_read_header may lead to OOB heap memory write when the data stream p_stream is too short and p_image is not initialized.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-22 04:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-457 - Use of Uninitialized Variable
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
uclouvain openjpeg Affected: >= 2.5.1, <= 2.5.3
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