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GHSA-wqcr-xm43-hpqr

HighCVSS 8.8 / 10
Published Oct 6, 2023·Last modified Dec 1, 2024
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

This vulnerability affects deployments of FreeImage that involve decoding or processing malicious source .webp files. If you only process your own trusted files, this should not affect you, but you should remove FreeImage from your project, as it is not maintained and presents a massive security risk.

If you are using FreeImage via ImageResizer.Plugins.FreeImage, please utilize Imageflow or Imageflow.Server instead, or upgrade to ImageResizer 5 and use ImageResizer.Plugins.Imageflow (enable Prereleases on NuGet to access).

FreeImage relies on Google's libwebp library to decode .webp images, and is affected by the recent zero-day out-of-bounds write vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 and https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr. The libwebp vulnerability also affects Chrome, Android, macOS, and other consumers of the library).

libwebp patched the vulnerability and released 1.3.2. FreeImage hasn't been updated since then and is presumed vulnerable.

Patches

None. FreeImage has not been updated in several years.

Workarounds

If you are using ImageResizer.Plugins.FreeImage, please utilize Imageflow or Imageflow.Server instead, or upgrade to ImageResizer 5 and use ImageResizer.Plugins.Imageflow (enable Prereleases on NuGet to access).

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863 https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/2af26267cdfcb63a88e5c74a85927a12d6ca1d76 https://github.com/NoXF/libwebp-sys/commits/master

Risk Scores
Base Score
8.8

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. The attacker needs the user to perform some action, like clicking a link. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
8.1

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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