When decoding an OpenEXR file that uses DWAA or DWAB compression, there's an implicit assumption that all image channels have the same pixel type (and size), and that if there are four channels, the first four are "B", "G", "R" and "A". The channel parsing code can be found in decode_header. The buffer td->uncompressed_data is allocated in decode_block based on the xsize, ysize and computed current_channel_offset. The function dwa_uncompress then assumes at [5] that if there are 4 channels, these are "B", "G", "R" and "A", and in the calculations at [6] and [7] that all channels are of the same type, which matches the type of the main color channels. If we set the main color channels to a 4-byte type and add duplicate or unknown channels of the 2-byte EXR_HALF type, then the addition at [7] will increment the pointer by 4-bytes * xsize * nb_channels, which will exceed the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-59733 is rated Low Risk (36/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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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) |
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| 1 | 2025-10-06 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (1 record total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 8.7 | 4.0 | HIGH |
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alpine
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— | CVE-2025-59733: 1 source package rows (ffmpeg); 4 state rows across 1 repos (edge-community); fixed 1, open 3. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-59733 |
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2025-59733 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ffmpeg), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-59733 |
redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59733 |
suse
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high | CVE-2025-59733 severity important: SUSE including 58 source package names (ffmpeg, ffmpeg-4, …), 384 product×package rows across 24 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (24 product lines)): Known Not Affected 384. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59733/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-59733 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (ffmpeg, libav), 14 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 6, DNE 4, needs-triage 2, ignored 1, not-affected 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-59733 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
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| No affected products in dataset. | |||