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high 7.8

CVE-2021-3575 json

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file.

published 2022-03-04 4 y ago modified 2026-07-25 3 mo ago also EUVD-2021-26884 , JLSEC-2026-546

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg in color.c:379:42 in sycc420_to_rgb when decompressing a crafted .j2k file. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled against openjpeg.

Patch / fix

  • julia OpenJpeg_jll 2.5.0+0
  • openjpeg2 Debian 12 2.5.0-2+deb12u1
  • openjpeg2 Debian 14, Debian 13 2.5.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3575

  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.3.1-1ubuntu4.20.04.3
  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.4.0-6ubuntu0.2
  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.5.0-2ubuntu0.2
  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u6ubuntu0.1~esm6
  • openjpeg2 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.3.0-2+deb10u2ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3575

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

  • openjpeg2 RHEL 8 2.4.0-4.el8
  • openjpeg2-tools RHEL 8 2.4.0-4.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:4251

  • openjpeg2 AlmaLinux 8 2.4.0-4.el8
  • openjpeg2-tools AlmaLinux 8 2.4.0-4.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2021:4251

  • openjpeg2 Rocky Linux 8 2.4.0-4.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2021:4251

  • openjpeg Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 2.5.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-3575

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org 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-2021-3575 updated cvss 7.5

openjpeg: heap-buffer-overflow in color.c may lead to DoS or arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openjpeg, openjpeg-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openjpeg, openjpeg2, openjpeg-libs, openjpeg2-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) openjpeg2-tools 2.4.0-4.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) openjpeg2 2.4.0-4.el8, openjpeg2-tools 2.4.0-4.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:4251
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 openjpeg2, openjpeg2-tools
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

1.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1347 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia OpenJpeg_jll
<2.5.0+0
2.5.0+0

Affected products

  • n/a OpenJPEG

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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