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 to multiple panic-guarded out-of-bounds accesses on untrusted input. In a typical deployment, this may get triggered by feeding a maliciously crafted blurhashes over the network. These may include UTF-8 compliant strings containing multi-byte UTF-8 characters. A patch is available in version 0.2.0, which requires user intervention because of slight API churn. No known workarounds are available.

EPSS: 0.005 (41.9th 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

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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.