Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting openexr package, versions [3.2.1,3.2.7)[3.3.0,3.3.9)[3.4.2,3.4.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENEXR-15916984
  • published6 Apr 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-34543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openexr to version 3.2.7, 3.3.9, 3.4.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource in the undo_pxr24_impl function. An attacker can access sensitive heap memory contents by submitting a specially crafted EXR file that triggers the decoder to read uninitialized memory and include it in the output pixel data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1