CVE-2022-38143: Openimageio

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the way OpenImageIO v2.3.19.0 processes RLE encoded BMP images. A specially-crafted bmp file can write to arbitrary out of bounds memory, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Openimageio Openimageio: version 2.3.19.0 only

Published 2022-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.