CVE-2026-26981 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-26981: OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp

Vendor Academysoftwarefoundation
Product openexr
Weakness CWE-195
Published February 24, 2026
Last update February 24, 2026

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. In versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.6 and 3.4.0 through 3.4.4, a heap-buffer-overflow (OOB read) occurs in the `istream_nonparallel_read` function in `ImfContextInit.cpp` when parsing a malformed EXR file through a memory-mapped `IStream`. A signed integer subtraction produces a negative value that is implicitly converted to `size_t`, resulting in a massive length being passed to `memcpy`. Versions 3.3.7 and 3.4.5 contain a patch.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 24, 2026 CVE published
February 24, 2026 Record updated