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CVE-2025-54874: uclouvain openjpeg · Use of Uninitialized Variable

Affects uclouvain openjpegSource CVE Database V5

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Public exploit available · CVSS 6.6 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.6Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 49% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Aug 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: evidence found.

    CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
uclouvain openjpegAffected
  • >=2.5.1 <=2.5.3
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, avoid processing untrusted or malformed JPEG 2000 data streams with affected versions of OpenJPEG.

Description

CVE-2025-54874 is a medium severity vulnerability in the open-source JPEG 2000 codec OpenJPEG, versions 2.5.1 through 2.5.3. The issue arises from the use of an uninitialized variable in the function opj_jp2_read_header, which can lead to an out-of-bounds heap memory write when the input data stream is too short and the image pointer is not initialized. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited to cause memory corruption.

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