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Vulnerability details: VCID-wxc5-3uas-mugd
Vulnerability ID VCID-wxc5-3uas-mugd
Aliases CVE-2020-16589
Summary A head-based buffer overflow exists in Academy Software Foundation OpenEXR 2.3.0 in writeTileData in ImfTiledOutputFile.cpp that can cause a denial of service via a crafted EXR file.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-16589.json
epss 0.00546 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16589
epss 0.00546 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16589
epss 0.00546 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16589
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-16589.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16589
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16589
1929323 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1929323
CVE-2020-16589 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16589
USN-4676-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4676-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-16589.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.6828
EPSS Score 0.00546
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-11T20:27:51.800502+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.6.0