CVE-2026-68516
From version 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR can crash OpenEXR during normal decode.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. From version 3.4.0 through 3.4.13, a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR can crash OpenEXR during normal decode. An HTJ2K-compressed EXR whose JPEG 2000 SIZ fields place the first tile outside the visible image can reach invalid tile and codeblock geometry in the vendored OpenJPH AVX2 decoder, causing a stack out-of-bounds write and denial of service. OpenEXR's HTJ2K path validates the decoded codestream dimensions against the EXR chunk size, but it does not reject SIZ image-offset/tile-grid geometry where the first tile does not intersect the image. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.14.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 16th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-121, CWE-787
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/45521f92104373b5c850f27f2d4659ab6759e848
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/commit/85009d840cc085aa96ad03ae76fa6463defeb0e5
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-fw66-6xph-56jm
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-fw66-6xph-56jm
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.