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🛡️ CVE-2023-39328 on Ubuntu 24.04 (Root.io) — openjpeg2

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2023-39328 in openjpeg2 - Patched by Root

Root has patched CVE-2023-39328 in the openjpeg2 package for Root:Ubuntu:24.04. Multiple fixed versions available.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-39328 as tracked by Ubuntu 24.04 (Root.io), for the package openjpeg2. The fix is available in version 2.5.0-2build3.aikido.2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high. (rating taken from the base CVE record.)

Weakness class

ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2023-39328 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2023-39328 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • openjpeg2 (fixed in 2.5.0-2build3.aikido.2)
  • rootio-openjpeg2 (fixed in 2.5.0-2build3.aikido.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

CVE-2023-39328 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-08-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openjpeg2 — 2.5.0-2build3.aikido.2
rootio-openjpeg2 — 2.5.0-2build3.aikido.2

References

N/A

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