Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting academysoftwarefoundation/openexr package, versions [3.3.2,3.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACADEMYSOFTWAREFOUNDATIONOPENEXR-11356873
  • published1 Aug 2025
  • disclosed31 Jul 2025
  • creditsuidpit, TheZ3ro, nico, Abdel Adim `smaury` Oisfi

Introduced: 31 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-48074  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade academysoftwarefoundation/openexr to version 3.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via unbounded values in the dataWindow header field. An attacker can exhaust system memory or cause the application to crash by supplying specially crafted files with excessively large header values that trigger uncontrolled memory allocation and excessive iteration.

Note:

This issue affects only macOS or GNU/Linux systems.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1