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CVE-2022-43603 (GCVE-0-2022-43603)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-23 23:03 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:10
VLAI
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ZfileOutput::close() functionality of OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO v2.4.4.2. A specially crafted ImageOutput Object can lead to denial of service. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-14 18:10 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO Affected: v2.4.4.2
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.