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MEDIUM
CVE-2020-27845
OpenJPEG Read-After-Write Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description

There's a flaw in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c of openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0. If an attacker is able to provide untrusted input to openjpeg's conversion/encoding functionality, they could cause an out-of-bounds read. The highest impact of this flaw is to application availability.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 5, 2021, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 5:21 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2020-27845 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-27845 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Uclouvain openjpeg
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Oracle outside_in_technology

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
34 stars 8 fork 8 watcher
Born at : Oct. 28, 2020, 11:33 a.m. This repo has been linked 21 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2020-27845 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-27845 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 06, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html No Types Assigned https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html No Types Assigned https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:outside_in_technology:8.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 20, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 14, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 02, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4882 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 31, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 26, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-122
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-125
    Removed CWE Reason CWE-122 / More specific CWE option available
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 25, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ Third Party Advisory https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-125
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 09, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00011.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 28, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 26, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-29 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WJUPGIZE6A4O52EBOF75MCXJOL6MUCRV/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 07, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907523 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 2.4.0
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-27845 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2020-27845 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.15 }} 0.02%

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0.51109

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