What is CVE-2023-42447?

CVE-2023-42447 is a high-severity vulnerability in Whisperfish Blurhash-rs, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2023-09-19.

How severe is CVE-2023-42447?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Whisperfish Blurhash-rs

CVE-2023-42447

blurhash-rs is a pure Rust implementation of Blurhash, software for encoding images into ASCII strings that can be turned into a gradient of colors representing the original image. In version 0.1.1, the blurhash parsing code may panic due…

EPSS: 0.005 (67.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.6 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Whisperfish Blurhash-rs — versions = 0.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-248
CWE-392
CWE-1284 — Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

References

https://github.com/whisperfish/blurhash-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-cxvp-82cq-57h2 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-42447?: CVE-2023-42447 is a high-severity vulnerability in Whisperfish Blurhash-rs, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2023-09-19.
How severe is CVE-2023-42447?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.