CVE-2023-42447 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in blurhash-rs versions prior to 0.2.0, a Rust library for encoding images into Blurhash strings, and affects products like Whisperfish. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) by providing a maliciously crafted Blurhash string, leading to out-of-bounds access and application panic. There are no known workarounds, but a patch is available in version 0.2.0, requiring user intervention due to API changes. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whisperfish:blurhash-rs:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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