What is CVE-2022-34000?

CVE-2022-34000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libjxl Project, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-06-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-34000?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libjxl Project

CVE-2022-34000

libjxl 0.6.1 has an assertion failure in LowMemoryRenderPipeline::Init() in render_pipeline/low_memory_render_pipeline.cc.

Published 2022-06-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Libjxl Project — versions 0.6.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

github.com/libjxl/libjxl/issues/1477 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-36 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-34000?: CVE-2022-34000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libjxl Project, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-06-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-34000?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.