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CVE-2020-6851

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-6851 is a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenJPEG versions through 2.3.1, affecting products like Debian, Fedora, Oracle, and Red Hat, due to insufficient validation of image dimensions. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on availability, though confidentiality and integrity are not directly affected. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and there is minimal community discussion, organizations using affected OpenJPEG versions should apply patches to mitigate the risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0497 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openjpeg2-0:2.3.1-2.el7_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openjpeg2-0:2.3.1-2.el8_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: openjpeg2-0:2.3.0-9.el8_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-6851Important

openjpeg: Heap-based buffer overflow in opj_t1_clbl_decode_processor()

Jan 13, 2020

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0262
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0274
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0296
Third Party Advisory
github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1228
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00025.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00008.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LACIIDDCKZJEPKTTFILSOSBQL7L3FC6V
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XBRMI2D3XPVWKE3V52KRBW7BJVLS5LD3
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4882
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory