CVE-2026-43909

high
Published 2026-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-15
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
VIR risk
8.8

Description

OpenImageIO is a toolset for reading, writing, and manipulating image files of any image file format relevant to VFX / animation. Prior to 3.0.18.0 and 3.1.13.0, a signed 32-bit integer overflow in the loop index expression i * 4 inside SwapRGBABytes() causes the function to compute a large negative pointer offset when processing kABGR DPX images with large dimensions. The immediate crash is an out-of-bounds read (the memcpy at line 45 reads from &input[i * 4] first), but the subsequent write operations at lines 46–49 target the same wrapped offset — making this a combined OOB read+write primitive. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.18.0 and 3.1.13.0.

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-2026-43909

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security-advisories@github.com — https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO/security/advisories/GHSA-g267-j53j-5258

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openimageioopenimageio{"endExcluding":"3.0.18.0"}3.0.18.0
openimageioopenimageio3.2.0.0
openimageioopenimageio3.2.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-125 CWE-190 CWE-787

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