CVE-2017-12603

high
Published 2021-10-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an invalid write in the cv::RLByteStream::getBytes function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 2-opencv-heapoverflow-fseek test case.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12603

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.0+dfsg-6
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.0+dfsg-6
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.0+dfsg-6
debian debiansidfixed3.2.0+dfsg-6
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.0+dfsg-6

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIopencv-python<3.3.1.113.3.1.11
python PyPIopencv-contrib-python<3.3.1.113.3.1.11

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
opencvopencv{"endIncluding":"3.3.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.