CVE-2020-27823

A flaw was found in OpenJPEG’s encoder. This flaw allows an attacker to pass specially crafted x,y offset input to OpenJPEG to use during encoding. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this flaw with Moderate severity because it affects the encoder functionality specifically when performing an image conversion and not general reading of image files.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

This flaw can be mitigated by not using openjpeg to convert untrusted image files.