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high 7.8

CVE-2023-36183 json

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in OpenImageIO v.2.4.12.0 and before allows a remote to execute arbitrary code and obtain sensitive informati…

published 2023-07-03 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-40162

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in OpenImageIO v.2.4.12.0 and before allows a remote to execute arbitrary code and obtain sensitive information via a crafted file to the readimg function.

Patch / fix

  • openimageio Debian 14, Debian 13 2.4.13.0+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-36183

  • openimageio Alpine 3.18 2.4.11.0-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-36183

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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-2023-36183 updated

OpenImageIO: heap-buffer-overflow in ICOInput::readimg() in icoinput.cpp

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/issues/3871 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

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.