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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2025-48073 json

OpenEXR ScanLineProcess::run_fill NULL Pointer Write In "reduceMemory" Mode

published 2025-07-31 15 mo ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-23316 , GHSA-qhpm-86v7-phmm , PYSEC-2026-1748

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. In version 3.3.2, when reading a deep scanline image with a large sample count in reduceMemory mode, it is possible to crash a target application with a NULL pointer dereference in a write operation. This is fixed in version 3.3.3.

Patch / fix

  • pypi openexr 3.3.3
  • openexr openexr 3.3.3
  • openexr openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.3.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15415-1

  • openexr Alpine 3.22 3.3.11-r0
  • openexr Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 3.4.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-48073

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-2025-48073 updated cvss 3.3

openexr: OpenEXR NULL pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ilmbase, OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ilmbase, OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ilmbase, OpenEXR, OpenEXR-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 openexr, openexr-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 openexr
    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
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-qhpm-86v7-phmm referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-48073 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 4.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi openexr
>=3.3.2, <3.3.3
3.3.3

Affected products

  • AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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