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CVE-2025-54874 Detail

Description

OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec. In OpenJPEG 2.5.3 and earlier, a call to opj_jp2_read_header may lead to OOB heap memory write when the data stream p_stream is too short and p_image is not initialized.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-BT 6.6 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/commit/f809b80c67717c152a5ad30bf06774f00da4fd2d GitHub, Inc. Patch 
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/pull/1573 GitHub, Inc. Third Party Advisory 
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2025-057_OpenCV GitHub, Inc. Exploit  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-457 Use of Uninitialized Variable GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-54874
NVD Published Date:
08/05/2025
NVD Last Modified:
09/12/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.