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Case File

CVE-2017-12598

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 1.97% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-08-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2017-12598
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
1.97%

Original Filing — NVD Description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an out-of-bounds read error in the cv::RBaseStream::readBlock function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 8-opencv-invalid-read-fread test case.