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CVE-2009-1722

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1722 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the compression implementation of OpenEXR 1.2.2. This vulnerability affects OpenEXR products and could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered of medium severity due to its network attack vector and medium attack complexity, leading to partial impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 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
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openexr:openexr:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0454 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1722Important

OpenEXR: Integer overflow in decompression of range of values in the pixel data

Oct 22, 2007

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/36032
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36096
secunia.com / advisories/36753
security.debian.org / pool/updates/main/o/openexr/openexr_1.2.2-4.3+etch2.diff.gz
Patch
github.com / openexr/openexr/blob/master/CHANGES.md
support.apple.com / kb/HT3757
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1842
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/35838
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-831-1
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2035
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2172