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CVE-2023-43907: OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.45% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: optipng (Debian:13) 0.7.8+ds-1; optipng (openSUSE:Leap 15.4) 0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1; optipng (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 0.7.8-1.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to optipng (Debian:13) 0.7.8+ds-1; optipng (openSUSE:Leap 15.4) 0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1; optipng (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 0.7.8-1.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Memory safety

Published: Sep 30, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 39th percentile
CWE: CWE-120

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
optipng project	optipng	cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

optipng project optipng0.7.7

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:12	optipng	from 0	—
Debian:13	optipng	before 0.7.8+ds-1	0.7.8+ds-1
openSUSE:Leap 15.4	optipng	before 0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1	0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweed	optipng	before 0.7.8-1.1	0.7.8-1.1
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP4	optipng	before 0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1	0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1

Same product

optipng project: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2015-7801Use-after-free vulnerability in OptiPNG 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file.
37Monitor
CVE-2017-16938A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a mal
32Monitor
CVE-2017-1000229Integer overflow bug in function minitiff_read_info() of optipng 0.7.6 allows an attacker to remotely execute code or cause denial of servic
32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2009-0749Mar 2, 2009 · Use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c in OptiPNG 0.6.2 and earlier allows context-
31Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2016-3981Apr 13, 2016 · Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_read_rows function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
32Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2015-7802Apr 20, 2016 · gifread.c in gif2png, as used in OptiPNG before 0.7.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) via
22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
debian:optipng	0.7.8+ds-1 · Debian:13	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:optipng	0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1 · openSUSE:Leap 15.4	Package registry (OSV)
suse:optipng	0.7.8-bp154.3.5.1 · SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP4	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
A user must open a link or visit a page.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

When data is copied, the source length is not compared with the size of the destination buffer. Excess data overwrites adjacent memory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-120 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1char buf[256];
2memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Fixed

1char buf[256];
2if (pkt->len > sizeof(buf)) {
3  return -EINVAL;
4}
5memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

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References

optipng.sourceforge.net/

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