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SCA: security update for opencv-contrib-python, opencv-python (GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419829

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has a buffer overflow in the
 cv::BmpDecoder::readData function in modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmt_bmp.cpp when reading an image file by
 using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 4-buf-overflow-readData-memcpy test case. (CVE-2017-12601)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419829

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12601