CVE-2025-48072 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2025-48072

OpenEXR's Inaccurate Pointer Arithmetic can Cause an Out of Bounds Heap

6.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. Version 3.3.2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow during a read operation due to bad pointer math when decompressing DWAA-packed scan-line EXR files with a maliciously forged chunk. This is fixed in version 3.3.3.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

AcademySoftwareFoundation

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Affected Software

openexr

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 3.3.2, < 3.3.3

Timeline

Official Publish: July 31st, 2025

Last Modified: July 31st, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1003 OS Credential Dumping

Credential Access

T1552 Unsecured Credentials

Credential Access