CVE-2021-31510
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 1.8%
exploitation probability
1.8%top 23% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In short
OpenText Brava! Desktop has a vulnerability in how it reads TIF image files. If you open a specially crafted TIF file, an attacker can run malicious code on your computer.
Technical detail
Out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CWE-125) in TIF file parsing within OpenText Brava! Desktop 16.6.4.55, triggered by insufficient validation of user-supplied data. Requires user interaction (opening a malicious file), leading to arbitrary code execution in the application's process context.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of OpenText Brava! Desktop Build 16.6.4.55. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of TIF files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-13675.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
OpenText · Brava! Desktop