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CVE-2012-3535

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3535 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in OpenJPEG 1.5.0 and earlier, impacting applications that process JPEG2000 files using this library. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity risk where an unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit it with medium complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service (application crash) and potentially arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0615 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,953 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openjpeg-0:1.3-9.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-3535Important

openjpeg: heap-based buffer overflow when decoding jpeg2000 files

Aug 27, 2012

References

code.google.com / p/openjpeg/issues/detail
Exploit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090021.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090579.html
osvdb.org / 84978
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1283.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/50360
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50681
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/77994
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/3
securityfocus.com / bid/55214