CVE-2026-68513

high

Description

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.12 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.13 contain a heap buffer overflow in PyOpenEXR triggered by a channel-name key collision between literal and prefixed RGB channels. When separate_channels=false, PyOpenEXR maps each physical channel name through channelNameToRGBA() and coalesces the results into a shared RGB array. A crafted flat scanline EXR that contains both a literal channel such as left and prefixed channels such as left.R, left.G, and left.B causes these names to collide, so the wrapper reuses an undersized two-dimensional NumPy array for the coalesced RGB slices and writes out of bounds when OpenEXR.File(path) decodes the pixels. This issue is fixed in versions 3.3.13 and 3.4.14.

References

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-rw5h-3q4v-c3vc

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/d134e3cd81a2e343f2919e86bf949f576b1ab16a

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/c1f3ec0d91cfa5a8035ecd00920835ac76e01640

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-09-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00188