Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-27843

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 0.0051 67.0th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-27843 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 33.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG in versions prior to 2.4.0. This flaw allows an attacker to provide specially crafted input to the conversion or encoding functionality, causing an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system 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
fedora
32, 33
oracle
outside in technology
8.5.5
debian
debian linux
10.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References