CVE-2017-12600 Denial of Service in OpenCV

What is CVE-2017-12600?

CVE-2017-12600 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has a denial of service (CPU consumption) issue, as demonstrated by the 11-opencv-dos-cpu-exhaust test case.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12600?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including opencv-contrib-python and opencv-python. It affects 1 product.

Products include Opencv Opencv.

How do I fix CVE-2017-12600?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to 3.3.1.11 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-12600 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12600 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-5063 Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 8.8
• CVE-2019-5064 Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 8.8
• CVE-2019-14491 Out-of-bounds Read in OpenCV High 8.2
• CVE-2019-14492 Out-of-bounds Read and Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 7.5
• CVE-2018-7712 Denial of service in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12600, GHSA-fr58-2xhv-qp3w, PYSEC-2026-2819, PYSEC-2026-709, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12600.