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CVE-2018-7712

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

The validateInputImageSize function in modules/imgcodecs/src/loadsave.cpp in OpenCV 3.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) because (size.height <= (1<<20)) may be false. Note: “OpenCV CV_Assert is not an assertion (C-like assert()), it is regular C++ exception which can raised in case of invalid or non-supported parameters.

Affected products

• OpenCV 3.0.0: 3.4.1

References

• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/10998
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/opencv/dos-by-assert
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/10998
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/opencv/dos-by-assert

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