# CVE-2026-54920: OpenEXR: Integer overflow and uninitialized pointer cause invalid delete in OpenEXRUtil image resize

- Severity: CVSS 0.0 (None), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.2.10
- Published: 2026-08-25 · Updated: 2026-08-25

## Affected

- AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr: fixed in 3.2.10; from 3.3.0, through 3.3.12; from 3.4.0, through 3.4.13

## Description

OpenEXR is the reference implementation and specification for the EXR image format, widely used in the motion picture industry. In versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.12, a reachable assertion failure in the HTJ2K decode path allows a crafted HTJ2K-compressed EXR file to cause an unconditional process abort in any application that calls exr_start_read() on untrusted input, resulting in denial of service. The crash is triggered by a QCD marker whose lower five bits are zero, which OpenEXR passes into the vendored OpenJPH library while constructing the codestream and evaluating its quantization delta parameters. OpenJPH uses an assertion rather than a recoverable error to validate those bits, so any invalid value calls abort() directly and cannot be intercepted by surrounding error handling, a problem compounded by OpenEXR wrapping only its internal HT header parser in error handling while leaving the later codestream read and construction calls unprotected. This issue has been resolved in version 3.4.13.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr, upgrade to a fixed version (3.2.10) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/security/advisories/GHSA-fp75-87pr-8329

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