Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting opencv/opencv package, versions [,2.4.13.4)[3.0.0-alpha,3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.99% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENCVOPENCV-2369575
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv/opencv to version 2.4.13.4, 3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has a denial of service (memory consumption) issue, as demonstrated by the 10-opencv-dos-memory-exhaust test case.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1