Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-31796

Medium

Published: 02 June 2022

Published
02 June 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0028 52.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-31796 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Jpeg Libjpeg. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

libjpeg 1.63 has a heap-based buffer over-read in HierarchicalBitmapRequester::FetchRegion in hierarchicalbitmaprequester.cpp because the MCU size can be different between allocation and use.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

jpeg
libjpeg
1.63

Mitigating Controls

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

References