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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-12602 json

Denial of Service in OpenCV

published 2017-08-07 9 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-pqjj-6f5q-gqph , PYSEC-2026-2827 , PYSEC-2026-713 , EUVD-2021-2241

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has a denial of service (memory consumption) issue, as demonstrated by the 10-opencv-dos-memory-exhaust test case.

Patch / fix

  • pypi opencv-python 3.3.1.11
  • pypi opencv-contrib-python 3.3.1.11
  • opencv Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.2.0+dfsg-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12602

  • opencv Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.4.9.1+dfsg-1.5ubuntu1.1
  • opencv Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.2.0+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12602

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12602 updated cvss 3.3

opencv: Memory exhaustion causing DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 opencv, opencv-python Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 opencv, opencv-core, opencv-python
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
OSV 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi opencv-python
<3.3.1.11
3.3.1.11
pypi opencv-contrib-python
<3.3.1.11
3.3.1.11

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.