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CVE-2024-11498

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-11498 is a high-severity stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the libjxl JPEG XL decoder, affecting libjxl_project libjxl. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger excessive memory usage (up to 512MB) by crafting a malicious file, leading to a denial of service. While no active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion have been observed, organizations are advised to upgrade to commit 65fbec56bc578b6b6ee02a527be70787bbd053b0 or later to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libjxl_project:libjxl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.9MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
HIGH
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 22nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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

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 (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: firefox
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: thunderbird
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: firefox
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-11498Moderate

libjxl: Resource exhaustion via Stack overflow in libjxl

Nov 25, 2024

References

github.com / libjxl/libjxl/pull/3943
Issue TrackingPatch