CVE-2025-48072 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting OpenEXR versions up to 3.3.2, which is used for EXR image storage in the motion picture industry. This flaw, rated 9.1 CRITICAL, allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact to confidentiality and availability by crafting malicious DWAA-packed EXR files, exploiting bad pointer math during decompression. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating potential interest. A fix is available in OpenEXR version 3.3.3.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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
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