Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-27842

Medium

Published: 05 January 2021

Published
05 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0044 63.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-27842 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

There's a flaw in openjpeg's t2 encoder in versions prior to 2.4.0. An attacker who is able to provide crafted input to be processed by openjpeg could cause a null pointer dereference. The highest impact of this flaw is to…

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application availability.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

uclouvain
openjpeg
≤ 2.4.0
fedoraproject
extra packages for enterprise linux
7.0
fedoraproject
fedora
32, 33
debian
debian linux
10.0, 9.0
redhat
codeready linux builder
8.0
redhat
codeready linux builder for ibm z systems
8.0
redhat
codeready linux builder for power little endian
8.0
redhat
enterprise linux
8.0
redhat
enterprise linux for ibm z systems
8.0
redhat
enterprise linux for power little endian
8.0
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References