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CVE-2012-1499

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1499 describes a critical heap-based buffer write vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 codec (jp2.c) within OpenJPEG versions prior to 1.5. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious JPEG image containing a specially designed palette index in a CMAP record, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but granting complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0514 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 8,915 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1499Moderate

openjpeg: Out-of heap-based buffer write by processing palette information in certain JPEG 2000 images

Mar 20, 2012

References

code.google.com / p/openjpeg/source/detail
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082923.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/083105.html
openjpeg.googlecode.com / svn/branches/openjpeg-1.5/NEWS
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201206-06.xml
technet.microsoft.com / en-us/security/msvr/msvr12-004
securityfocus.com / bid/52654