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.

Published: 2021-05-13 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2020-27823 is rated Moderate Risk (50.1/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-27823

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-30 0.23% 0.30% +0.07%
2 2026-05-28 0.05% 0.23% +0.18%
3 2026-04-30 — 0.05% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-27823

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 5.9 [email protected]
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-27823

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-27823

vendor priority summary link
alpine high CVE-2020-27823: 1 source package rows (openjpeg); 55 state rows across 10 repos (3.10-main, 3.11-main, 3.12-main, 3.17-main, 3.18-main, 3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 10, open 45. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-27823
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-27823 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (openjpeg2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27823
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27823
suse high CVE-2020-27823 severity important: SUSE including 33 source package names (0.3.2-1.2:libopenjp2-7-2.3.0-150000.3.5.1, 0.3.32-3.4:libopenjp2-7-2.3.0-150000.3.5.1, …), 305 product×package rows across 85 product lines (Container containers/lmcache-vllm-openai, Container containers/open-webui, … (85 product lines)): Fixed 199, Known Not Affected 106. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27823/
ubuntu medium CVE-2020-27823 medium priority: Ubuntu including 7 source packages (blender, ghostscript, …), 112 status rows across 16 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 29, needs-triage 27, DNE 25, not-affected 16, released 15. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27823

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-27823

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
uclouvain openjpeg < 2.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 32 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 33 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-27823

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